Flaws plague a tool meant to help low-risk federal prisoners win early release
Thousands of people are leaving federal prison this month thanks to a law called the First Step Act, which allowed them to win early release by participating in programs aimed at easing their return to society. But thousands of others may still remain behind bars because of fundamental flaws in the Justice Department's method for deciding who can take the early-release track.
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The Batch: Special Issue! Foundational Algorithms, Where They Came From, Where They're Going
Machine learning, like many technical fields, evolves as the community of researchers builds on top of one another's work. Some contributions have staying power and become the basis of further developments. Consequently, everything from a housing-price predictor to a text-to-image generator is built on core ideas that include algorithms (linear and logistic regression, decision trees, and so on) and concepts (regularization, optimizing a loss function, bias/variance, and the like).
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