Posts Tagged ‘nyc’
NYC coronavirus deaths hit 12,199 as confirmed cases climb
April 18, 2020Found this an unusual quote: “Although cases and deaths continue to rise, other coronavirus metrics are headed in a more promising
direction.” https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/nyc-coronavirus-deaths-hit-12199-as-confirmed-cases-climb What other metrics? #covid19
Luminocity Festival in NYC at Randall’s Island Park
November 24, 2019To do
November 2, 2019Gulliver’s Gate is a technologically advanced, interactive and immersive world of miniatures covering 50,000 square feet that will ignite your imagination and challenge your perspective.
ARTECHOUSE | New York, NY
October 6, 2019New York City’s Bold, Flawed Attempt to Make Algorithms Accountable
January 20, 2018NYC’s Bold, Flawed Attempt to Make #Algorithms Accountable
https://www.NewYorker.com/tech/elements/new-york-citys-bold-flawed-attempt-to-make-algorithms-accountable QT: “#NYC should commit to demanding openness in all future contracts with vendors of these algorithmic services…It’s a dereliction of duty to allow vital decisions to be made by a black box.”
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“Frank Pasquale,… told me much the same. “While the terms of past contracts are hard to revisit, New York City should commit to demanding openness in all future contracts with venders of these algorithmic services,” he said. “They have the leverage here, not the firms. Secrecy may incentivize tiny gains in efficiency, but those are not worth the erosion of legitimacy and public confidence in government. It’s a dereliction of duty to allow vital decisions to be made by a black box.”
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Cathy O’Neil, the author of “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy,” told me. “What we’re finding is that the world of algorithms is one ugly wormhole.” In insulating algorithms and their creators from public scrutiny, rather than responding to civic concerns about bias and discrimination, the existing system “propagates the myth that those algorithms are objective and fair,” O’Neil said. “There’s no reason to believe either.””
‘Never Built New York’ Review: The City That Could Have Been- The Wall Street Journal.
October 6, 2017Never Built NY Review: The City That Could Have Been
https://www.WSJ.com/articles/never-built-new-york-review-the-city-that-could-have-been-1507062637 Incl bridges w/ apts & the R Moses trans-Manhattan expressway
New Haven Crime Rates By Neighborhood
March 5, 2017Nice demographic #maps (property values, crime &c) of NHV + other cities https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ct/new-haven Related RedZone app https://appsto.re/us/fGYg7.i
Avoid navigating through dangerous areas
RedZone Map by Zone Technologies Inc.
https://appsto.re/us/fGYg7.i
But if you have to go there keep your finger on the button
SafeTrek – Hold Until Safe℠ by SafeTrek, Inc.
https://appsto.re/us/4PuSQ.i
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ct/new-haven/crime/
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ny/new-york/crime
Holland Is Not A Dense Country, But An Empty City – Brilliant Maps
September 5, 2016Holland isn’t a dense country but an empty city by @BrilliantMaps http://brilliantmaps.com/empty-netherlands/ Great inversion. NYC area seems a good comparable
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