Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: jInbo'
Does anyone see any pun? The word *jInbo'* plays off the name of Jimmy "Jxmbo" Wales, founder of Wikipedia. A big issue on Wikipedia is systemic bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias
The typical editor on the Wikipedia is a SWMAN -- Straight White Male Atheist Nerd -- like much of the deep Internet in general. There are some other biases: Wikipedians (on the English Wikipedia at least) tend to come from countries where English is a first language, and they're generally from the Northern Hemisphere (so describing seasons in the Southern Hemisphere often gets overlooked). In recent years, the Wikipedia collective have become more aware of their intrinsic biases in editorship and the way the whole system's set up (reliable sources are easier to find in English than in, say, Kyrgyz), and many Wikipedian of the Year awards have gone to women, ethnic minorities, and English Wikipedia editors from underrepresented countries.
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 14:32:16 +0000>From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org> Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: jInbo'
Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, April 01, 2023
Klingon word: jInbo' Part of speech: noun Definition: bias Source: qep'a' 28 [2021]
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. -- ghunchu'wI'
Ahh. One could say that her software detects when and where a bias FORMS, right? pItlh charghwI’ ‘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 <mailto: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.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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The spirited discussion inspired me to put in more of an effort to find a pun for *jInbo'*. Here we go: 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".
*jInbo'* backwards is *'obnIj*. *nIj* is "leak". ob-leak = oblique On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 7:37 AM Will Martin via tlhIngan-Hol < tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:
Ahh. One could say that her software detects when and where a bias FORMS, right?
pItlh
charghwI’ ‘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.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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