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AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals

The latest paper shows that some more troubling implicit biases seen in human psychology experiments are also readily acquired by algorithms. […] The AI system was more likely to associate European American names with pleasant words such as “gift” or “happy”, while African American names were more commonly associated with unpleasant words.

These biases can have a profound impact on human behaviour. One previous study showed that an identical CV is 50% more likely to result in an interview invitation if the candidate’s name is European American than if it is African American. The latest results suggest that algorithms, unless explicitly programmed to address this, will be riddled with the same social prejudices.

Hannah Devlin, AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals

How To Use Office 365 Groups: Tips, Advice, and Use Cases from Our Team

How To Use Office 365 Groups: Tips, Advice, and Use Cases from Our Team

Teams – Incoming Email in SharePoint Online

Teams – Incoming Email in SharePoint Online

There is now a way to set up incoming email on a library in SharePoint Online… sort of.

Peek behind the scenes of running and building SharePoint Online

Peek behind the scenes of running and building SharePoint Online

DescriptionMicrosoft SharePoint Online is the largest SharePoint deployment in the world – massive scale. We take you on a „behind the scenes“ tour of how we run, build and manage SharePoint Online throughout our datacenters. We hope you learn a thing or two about learning how to run and manage SharePoint at scale. Join us for this deep dive „how we do it“ session.

PnP/README.md at master · SharePoint/PnP · GitHub

PnP/README.md at master · SharePoint/PnP · GitHub

Simplistic Windows Console application showing how to create „modern“ SharePoint sites with SharePoint REST APIs. Console will ask all needed details for the site creation. REST API calls will create a „modern“ SharePoint site and associated Office 365 group for it.

The Power of SharePoint

The Power of SharePoint

In the paper, the company Contoso has a SharePoint Online site where they share docs and track projects. A project requestor, such as a department head, requests an IT project by adding an item to a SharePoint list. A project approver, such as an IT manager, reviews the project, and then approves it or rejects it. If approved, the project is assigned to a project manager, and additional detail is added to a second list through the same app. A business analyst reviews current and completed projects using a Power BI report embedded in SharePoint. Microsoft Flow is used to send approval email and respond to Power BI alerts.

Try SharePoint Framework without installing it

Try SharePoint Framework without installing it

Recently Microsoft released the SharePoint Framework. Here is how you can try it without installing it, or any of its prerequisites, on your machine.

Calling Bullshit

Calling Bullshit

Bullshit involves language, statistical figures, data graphics, and other forms of presentation intended to persuade by impressing and overwhelming a reader or listener, with a blatant disregard for truth and logical coherence.

Calling bullshit is a speech act in which one publicly repudiates something objectionable. The scope of targets is broader than bullshit alone. You can call bullshit on bullshit, but you can also call bullshit on lies, treachery, trickery, or injustice.

In this course we will teach you how to spot the former and effectively perform the latter.

Open (World) Peer Review: Leveling a Lowbie PhD Thesis

Video game archaeology perhaps is the first example of a new New Archaeology, one that is post-material and post-human, one that not only intersects past and present, but that also uses the screen as the sole method of accessing new archaeological spaces. These spaces are made by people (or by machine) for other people to use, and are invested with creativity and examples of material culture. They are kinetic and also kinesthetic. They contain their own space-time. Each game is its own discrete entity, its own site. At the same time, each game exists in multiple, identical copies, circumventing the problem of the “unrepeatable experiment” of total excavation. They pose both classic and new questions to the archaeologist who operates in both the real and the virtual simultaneously using very real archaeological craft.

Andrew Reinhard, Open (World) Peer Review: Leveling a Lowbie PhD Thesis | Archaeogaming

Using technology to address gender bias in film

Using technology to address gender bias in film

Dubbed the Geena Davis Inclusion Quotient (GD-IQ), the tool not only can identify a character’s gender, but it knew to a fraction of a second how long each actor spoke, and were on-screen.