Etymology
c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570).
From French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c. 1250, as a noun ("oblique angle, slant") from the late 16th century. The French word is likely from Old Occitan biais, itself of obscure origin, most likely from an unattested Latin *biaxius "with two axes".
_______________________________________________Ahh. One could say that her software detects when and where a bias FORMS, right?pItlhcharghwI’ ‘utlh(ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)
On Apr 4, 2023, at 12:42 AM, Alan Anderson via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:_______________________________________________On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 6:19 PM James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:>Does anyone see any pun?The word *jInbo'* plays off the name of Jimmy "Jxmbo" Wales, founder of Wikipedia...
I think connecting the word to that name is quite a stretch.
It could be a reference to Dr. Jinbo Chen, Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work at the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics includes the development of tools for Machine Learning from readily available but imperfect health data, and methods to monitor ML and AI systems for bias. Some of her published papers address bias in statistical models.
Or it could be nothing of the sort.
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