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Just Call Me Lucky

In Steve’s Words I don’t know if I ever told you about the time Sharon and I won the Oregon Lottery. A million dollars as I recall. It was (circa) 1986 in Portland. I was working as a Manager at a fast-food seafood restaurant called Skippers (As in Arthur Treacher’s, as in Long John Silver’s).Continue reading “Just Call Me Lucky”

BIAS-FREE

BIAS-FREE Machines have the same biases humans have. Humans design the machines. Humans design the programs used on computers that provide automated services. Just because an operating procedure or method is automated doesn’t mean it’s bias-free. It isn’t. Humans insert their biases into the programs. Is bias-free the same as a lottery system? You haveContinue reading “BIAS-FREE”