![]() ![]() There is the potential to build tools that shift power in favor of marginalized people, but without access to resources to build training datasets this is difficult. This in-turn contributes to low productivity and unstable incomes. Without locally representative data, it is difficult for engineers to build AI tools to help farmers in their communities plant and manage their crops. The question to pose is a deeper one: how is AI shifting power?Īs a practical example, The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 800 million people or 78 percent of the world’s poorest are harmed by agriculture data gaps. But ‘fair’ and ‘good’ are infinitely spacious words that any AI system can be squeezed into. It is not uncommon now for AI experts to ask whether an AI is ‘fair’ and ‘for good’. In a recent article for Nature, AI researcher Pratyusha Kalluri sums up the problem: ![]() Bias in existing datasets and the lack of other critical datasets is at its core about who has the power and resources to envision and build a better future. Marginalized people and problems are regularly left out of industry standard datasets, leading to measurably worse algorithmic performance when compared to privileged groups.īut a purely technical answer hides the social root of the problem. Developing a system to diagnose a medical condition or identify voice commands takes a large amount of labeled data to train the algorithm. We can often trace issues back to the data used to build the algorithm. From a technical perspective, there is a straightforward answer. ![]()
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From the author of acclaimed graphic novels AGNES MURDERESS (a Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature (fiction) and an Alberta Book Publishers Award (speculative fiction) and TANGLES: A STORY ABOUT ALZHEIMER’S MY MOTHER AND ME (first comic to be nominated for a Writers’ Trust Award) comes Sarah Leavitt’s new graphic novel SOMETHING, NOT NOTHING, a beautiful and raw depiction of the grief Sarah experienced at the end of her partner, Donimo’s life and in the wake of her passing, sold to Brian Lam at Arsenal Pulp Press by Samantha Haywood of Transatlantic Agency, for Fall 2024 publication (World). ![]() ![]() As such, they obviously chime with Hughes’s lifelong obsession with the brutality, intensity, and visionary otherness of the natural world.Īlso, it’s easy to overlook the fact that Hughes had, earlier in his career, translated another work by a canonical Roman writer, the Oedipus of Seneca. I had fond memories of reading the Metamorphoses 30 years ago and had completely forgotten that they are consistently brutal, intense and often very cruel indeed. ![]() Having just read the full Ovid poem I can see that Hughes’s decision is less surprising than might at first appear. ![]() Given his reputation for avoiding anything which smacked of ‘the Poetic Tradition’, the fact that he dropped English at Cambridge because he found studying the classics too stifling for his imagination, and his lifelong preference for depicting the harsh realities of a brutal, untamed nature – it might come as quite a surprise that, right at the end of his life, in 1997, Ted Hughes published a full-on translation of the Metamorphoses by the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, the kind of thing you might expect from a far more traditional, decorous, academic poet. ![]() ![]() Stephanie's financial situation is still rather perilous, partially due to her poor financial skills, and she often finds herself seeking alternative ways to earn money in order to pay her bills. Vinnie refuses to hire her, but she manages to convince him to give her a shot by threatening to blackmail him. ![]() ![]() She originally hopes to find a file clerk job at the Bail Bonds office but the position was taken, and the only position available is as an apprehension agent or Bounty hunter. This last straw prompts her to turn to her cousin Vinnie, owner of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, for a job. After graduation, Stephanie married Dickie Orr, then promptly divorced him after discovering him in their new home, cheating on her with rival Joyce Barnhardt on their brand new dining room table.Īt the beginning of the first book, One for the Money, Stephanie has been laid off from her job as a lingerie buyer, she is being forced to sell off her appliances one by one in order to pay her rent, and her car is repossessed. Stephanie often finds former classmates and neighbors still living in the Burg, only a few streets away from their childhood home. The Burg is often portrayed in the series as a close-knit community, from which people rarely leave. Stephanie grew up in the Chambersburg neighborhood known to locals as "the Burg", and attended Douglass College, she graduated "without distinction". ![]() ![]() And feeling guilty for having sent his friend off to his death, callously put. Lowen is like most kids, except for his penchant for drawing. ![]() Will Millville and the dollar house be the answer to the Grovers’ troubles? Or will they find they’ve traded one set of problems for another? From the author of Small as an Elephant and Paper Things comes a heart-tugging novel about guilt and grief, family and friendship, and, above all, community. But is the Dollar Program too good to be true? The homes are in horrible shape, and the locals are less than welcoming. Fortunately, his family is willing to give it a try. It not only seems like the perfect escape from Flintlock and all of the awful memories associated with the city, but an opportunity for his mum to run her very own business. Twelve-year-old Lowen Grover, a budding comic-book artist, is still reeling from the shooting death of his friend Abe when he stumbles across an article about a former mill town giving away homes for just one dollar. ![]() ![]() When a family buys a house in a struggling town for just one dollar, they’re hoping to start over - but have they traded one set of problems for another? ![]() ![]() ![]() Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured by Kathryn Harrison.Scroll down to read a transcript of the interview.ĭavid Elliott's Top 5 Reading Recommendations: Last week, NHPR’s Peter Biello stopped by David Elliott's home in Warner where he keeps his writing studio in the smallest bedroom of a house built in 1830. It's called Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc, and it's written in different forms of rhyming verse. 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