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Dan Drake 🦆

I was excited to use ranked-choice voting / instant runoff to vote for Saint Paul mayor yesterday. I was also excited to see it go to a second round of counting -- with traditional voting, we would have a third term with Carter, but RCV yielded the city's first female, and first Hmong-American mayor.

Algorithms matter, folks.

I am a little confused about the results, though -- the declared winner, Kaohly Her, only got 48% of the vote. But RCV should finish with a majority winner. It seems like they dropped more than one candidate after the first round, but looking at the first-round results --

electionresults.sos.mn.gov/res

-- I'm not sure which candidate got dropped or how ballots got reallocated.

So. I've emailed the reporter who wrote a couple articles on this (for example, twincities.com/2025/11/04/vote).

Overall, though: RCV FTW.

electionresults.sos.mn.govIndex - Election Results
#democracy#math#algorithms
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Everyone sharing his or her data to train A.I. is great if we agree with the goals that were given to the A.I. It’s not so great if we don’t agree with these goals; and if the algorithm’s decisions might cost us our jobs, happiness, liberty or even lives.

To safeguard ourselves from collective harm, we need to build institutions and pass laws that give people affected by A.I. algorithms a voice over how those algorithms are designed, and what they aim to achieve. The first step is transparency. Similar to corporate financial reporting requirements, companies and agencies that use A.I. should be required to disclose their objectives and what their algorithms are trying to maximize — whether that’s ad clicks on social media, hiring workers who won’t join unions or total deportation counts.

The second step is participation. The people whose data are used to train the algorithms — and whose lives are shaped by them — should help decide their goals. Like a jury of peers who hear a civil or criminal case and render a verdict together, we might create citizens’ assemblies where a representative randomly chosen set of people deliberates and decides on appropriate goals for algorithms. That could mean workers at a firm deliberating about the use of A.I. at their workplace, or a civic assembly that reviews the objectives of predictive policing tools before government agencies deploy them. These are the kinds of democratic checks that could align A.I. with the public good, not just private power.

The future of A.I. will not be decided by smarter algorithms or faster chips. It will depend on who controls the data — and whose values and interests guide the machines. If we want A.I. that serves the public, the public must decide what it serves."

nytimes.com/2025/11/02/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | How A.I. Can Use Your Personal Data to Hurt Your NeighborAv Maximilian Kasy
#AI#Algorithms#Privacy
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“It is hard to predict when the world will go crazy,” he says of his belief that #quantum will follow the #AI path, with billions invested to secure an impregnable position and #UK companies becoming #AcquisitionTargets.

There are already signs of this happening, with #Oxford #Ionics being acquired for $1.1bn by the US company #IonQ in June.

#QuantumComputers use #QuantumBits, or #qubits, to solve problems exponentially faster than classical computers but they are still prone to mounting errors.

This prevents them from reaching their full potential to #model new #materials for fields such as #medicine and #SolarPower, or master highly complex #calculations.

Rather than trying to build quantum computers themselves, UK #startups such as #Phasecraft, spun out of the #UniversityOfBristol and #UniversityCollegeLondon in 2019, and #Riverlane, which emerged from #CambridgeUniversity in 2016, have focused on the #algorithms and #software needed for the machines to work.”

<archive.md/smCSj> / <ft.com/content/c691caf6-3a54-4> (paywall)

Susan Ville

⚠️ 🗨️ Interestingly, there is a YT channel created by "The Hague Initiative for International Cooperation" - they published a video on 'the future of #gaza ' recently - #algorithms spread this ISR propaganda widely on YouTube et al - be careful here: this project is funded by a prominent Zionist group (propagating disarmament of the Palestinian resistance with #eu support), do not confuse them with the #HagueGroup(.org)

@palestine
#palestine

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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

Probably the best, most succinct explanation of how social media, algorithms and the content creator economy is wrecking societal structures. This was something I noticed back during the Rohingya genocide in 2016. Back then I was the world news editor for a national newspaper and you can't help but feel helpless at how Facebook refused to do anything about how their platform flamed the flames of racism, bigotry and eventually genocide. Then came Cambridge Analytica (2018). Hate to be cynical about it but that's when the West finally took notice and action 🥴.

Perhaps it's controversial, as this regulation can be misused, but Malaysia took the step to insist on platforms like #Facebook to be licensed. (Meaning if they don't abide by Malaysian regulations their licenses will be yanked.)

In Asia, where societal harmony is prized, we cannot afford the disunity and polarisation described by this YouTuber.

I think the only way to solve this is to a) disengage from the major platforms b) take money out of the whole machine.

B is least likely to happen for even in China, the content creator economy drives clicks.

youtu.be/FmYXyWbis9w?si=UsMCjd

YouTubeThe Machine Already Won. Can Humans band together before it's too late?Av Internet of Bugs
#SocialMedia#Internet#Algorithms
MPI für Informatik

Zwei neue Emmy-Noether-Nachwuchsgruppen am MPI für Informatik eingerichtet, geleitet von Dr. Jan Eric Lenssen und Dr. Karol Węgrzycki.
Die beiden Forschungsgruppen arbeiten in den Bereichen Algorithmen und Maschinelles Lernen. Insgesamt erhalten sie rund 3,7 Millionen Euro Förderung von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

↪️ sic.link/emmynoether

Herzlichen Glückwunsch Jan und Karol zu diesem Erfolg!👏

#Science #research #funding #artificialintelligence #Algorithms

sic.linkResearch Funding in the Millions: Two New Emmy Noether Groups Established at the MPI for InformaticsResearch focuses on algorithms and machine learning
lps

Another great topic by @fedihost regarding #algorithms ... not the bad kind;) That could make the #fediverse an easier transition to newcomers and established users alike.

video.fedihost.co/videos/watch

And don't forget if you want to get their videos right in you timeline, and have the ability to comment and like directly just follow the account above 👆

From that point on, you'll see all their new videos thanks to #activitypub #peertube

PeerTubeWe Have An Algorithm ProblemAv Explainers
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@mastodonmigration I sincerely believe #GenZ, #Millenials, #GenX like myself and #Boomers will not be coming to the #Fediverse in droves abandoning #Bluesky, #TikTok, #Instagram for #Pixelfed and the like.

My experience in computing for 42+ years tells me otherwise.

Some will discover the alternatives but we will always be in the minority. Current FediDB stats show just that.

People came from #Twitter and then left for Bluesky w/ #algorithms.

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