Machine-learning algorithms are complex mathematical formulae that carry out their human-written code. But to the militant liberal mind, algorithms are potentially iniquitous and must be “cleaned up” to favour particular groups. In The Spectator USA, Pedro Domingos argues that the “debiasing” of algorithms makes machine learning and all its benefits impossible.
Reversing Industrial Suicide
Following the loss of 5 million U.S. industrial jobs from 2000 through 2017, Joel Kotkin in Spiked writes of the growing consensus – alone among Western countries, and despite the U.S. left’s hatred of Donald Trump – to revive America’s industries by “reshoring” manufacturing. Today, writes Kotkin, even some of the famously globalist “tech bros” are opening new facilities back home to manufacture tangible, advanced products. One sign of success: China is measurably bleeding in its manufacturing output.
