Monthly Shaarli
June, 2021
How to keep secret credentials safe on the command line.
USB keyboard key mapping with udev and systemd-hwdb.
Emulate group accounts on Mastodon and Pleroma. Contribute to oe4dns
The combination of predictive accuracy and mysterious or unexplainable properties results in myth-making about deep learning’s transcendent, superhuman capacities, especially when it is applied in social settings. We analyze how discourses of magical deep learning produce techno-optimism, drawing on case studies from game-playing, adversarial examples, and attempts to infer sexual orientation from facial images. Enchantment shields the creators of these systems from accountability while its deterministic, calculative power intensifies social processes of classification and control.