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A new study of Veterans Health Administration data shows that the Care Assessment Needs (CAN) algorithm — a tool used to predict whether veterans will be hospitalized or die in the 90 days after their ...

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Twitter announced a new plan to study the fairness of its algorithms. As part of the effort, which the company has dubbed the “Responsible Machine learning Initiative,” data scientists and engineers ...

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