Briefs

September 26, 2009. Mary McGlohon

I have returned to the blogosphere to report on our successful voicing of machine learning concerns at the G20 People's March yesterday.

(Top: "Support Vector Machines," "Repeal Power Laws," "End Duality Gap," "MapReduce, MapReuse, MapRecycle: Green Data Processing."
Bottom: "Bayesians Against Discrimination"," "Free Variables," "Ban Genetic Algorithms")

Several CMU SCS grad students and postdocs gathered at CMU and walked to Oakland where the march was to begin. As we carried our signs the LOL:Puzzlement ratio decreased (but by no means disappeared) as the distance from CMU increased. Then we marched with the crowd towards dahntahn.

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