Interesting Links for 28-08-2017

[andrewducker]

The Hindu Temple as a Model of Fractal Cosmology – Producing Architecture with Recursive Instruction | Dataisnature

(tags: fractal religion architecture )

Where in Europe does an electric car reduce pollution?

(tags: cars co2 pollution Europe electricity viaFanf )

New app scans your face and tells companies whether you’re worth hiring (OMG No!)

Possibly the worst idea I've heard in some time
(tags: interview ai awful )

There's Now a Porn Genre About How Broke Millennials Are

(tags: poverty housing porn )

Tinker, tailor, soldier, Sandbagger: sometimes TV from the 70s holds up

(tags: tv review spying uk )

A Whisper in an Age of Shouting - The man who founded outdoor playgrounds

(tags: history usa play gardens )

Comments

[drplokta]

The link about electric cars and pollution is incomplete, because it only talks about CO2. It's true that there's no benefit from moving CO2 emissions from car exhaust pipes to power station chimneys, but there's lots of benefit from moving other pollutants from ground level in city centres to high up in the countryside.

[andrewducker]

True.

ISTR bumping into something which gave the health savings from cutting down the pollution from cars, which would add a significant amount I'd have thought.

[elf]

That face-scanning app is an open invitation for discrimination lawsuits, especially if the AI was trained on nothing but white european faces.

So if the employer’s ideal candidate is already biased against certain characteristics, HireVue’s platform would only embed these biases further, potentially making discriminatory practices a part of the process. Human recruiters would need to recognize their own personal biases before they could stop feeding them into HireVue

AHAHAHAHA no.

[andrewducker]

Exactly. Totally disastrous, with high chance of gleeful lawyers.