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1/ THREAD: You can go to prison based on software: breathalyzer software that says how much you've had to drink. Risk assessment software that says how likely you are to reoffend. Statistical genotyping software that gives confident conclusions where human analysts fear to tread.
2/ Almost all of this code is secret. My colleague @jlkoepke wrote about this last year in the context specifically of DNA mixtures -- medium.com/equal-future/s…
3/ (Spoiler alert: Betteridge's Law applies.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridg…
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