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A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

Harvard Business

In bail, it turns out that different forms of crime are correlated enough so that an algorithm trained on just one type of crime winds up out-predicting judges on almost every measure of criminality we could construct, including violent crime. A time traveler going back to the dawn of the 20 th century would arrive with dire warnings.

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