I've been reading lots of articles on machine learning and its applications. Often there will be some article that says something like, this little-known connection was discovered and used to find a new market/application etc.
So I've started to recognize that pattern in articles. Like for example, this one talks about targeting people who are likely to miss some loan payments.
Then I read this:
In his dealings with the CW, Smith “emphasized his desire” to murder his target “in the city rather than in Baltimore County”—a reflection, perhaps, on the relative odds of getting caught. The city’s homicide squad closes about half or less of their murder investigations with arrests, while Baltimore County closes about nine out of 10 cases.
It struck me as something out of one of those "this is how Target can tell you're pregnant" articles.
Now, it doesn't take a machine-learning algorithm to determine the best place to carry out a murder, but it can't hurt.
Just wondering what sort of unprofessional or even evil ideas have you've had for machine learning and predictive/pattern recognition applications. Something short of murder would be nice to discuss, like winning the lottery, or cheating at online poker, or getting the most likes on facebook, or successful online dating or finding the best parking spots or something like that. Think like a Bat Man Villain.
For the record, murder is clearly evil without quotes, but I want the discussion to be about "evil" with quotes.
Apologies if you're all too serious for this. Recreational Machine Learning might have been a better way to present this discussion idea. (ala recreational mathematics)
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