This is just a bit of virtue signalling. It's important to be aware that in common parlance, outside of programming and mathematics, the word 'algorithm' has increasingly taken on a dark conspiratorial meaning. The connotation is deliberate mechanisms for inflicting all kinds of invisible secret oppressive controls on the masses. This is fueled by evidence that some algorithmic outcomes, inadvertently, are statistically correlated to different treatment of different social groups. Just look the other way when the tinfoil hatters weave in the correlation-causation fallacy, and you've got a real live "plot against humanity". Cheers David On 28/07/20 9:38 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
The Charter <https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/28/new_zealand_algorithm_charter/> requires Government departments who sign on to it to “maintain transparency” about the algorithms they use, but does not make them reveal the actual details of these algorithms. Nor does it explain what it means by an “algorithm”. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list -- wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz | To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/postorius/lists/wlug.list.waikato.ac.nz