Coded Bias

nwillc
3 min readSep 16, 2021
Photo by George Pagan III on Unsplash

I’ve just watched Coded Bias a documentary about inherent bias in current software systems and the implications. It’s really interesting and compelling and I found Joy Buolamwini to be very impressive and inspirational. I recommend seeing it.

Naivete or Hubris?

One thing the documentary made clear was that many of the systems suffered from biased initial data. As a light-skinned male software developer…

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nwillc

Graybeard code monkey, started on an Apple IIe, got a CS degree in the 80’s, and coded my way through C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Kotlin — and now Go.