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1d ago
inWarning: my screed rope got caught in the mixer and I finished 30 feet of curb with a 2x4
A buddy of mine did the same thing on a sidewalk and his 2x4 "repair" left a puddle that froze every winter. He heard about that dip for years lol.
1d ago
inHonestly, watching a machine knock out a full mural at the Columbus art fair in 20 minutes killed my excitement for the tech
Man, nothing says "art" like a robot speedrunning a mural in 20 minutes. Guess we can all pack it up and let the machines have the fair next year. Kinda takes the soul right out of it huh.
25d ago
inShowerthought: I was dead wrong about bail algorithms until I sat through a 2 hour hearing in Cook County
The thing is, the score is already just a starting point, that's how these tools are built, judges can always override in either direction. What you saw in that one hearing wasn't the tool working, it was one judge using it and then doing his own thing, which is the whole system really. I get why that flipped you because it does feel good when a human catches something the math missed, but you can't build policy off one case where the override happened to be right. There are way more cases where a judge overrides and the person was no danger at all and just sits in jail for weeks because of a gut feeling. The record keeping you're asking for does exist in some places, a few states log override rates and reasons, and the numbers usually show judges override to lock people up way more than they override to let them go. So if you want scores used more, that part is fine, but the override is the part that worries me, not the math.