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		darawk on March 31, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model... Except that that toy example bears no resemblance to the actual situation.

wybiral on March 31, 2018 [–]

How many dimensions were they working with and how much variance and correlation was there in the features? What's the margin of error for the end product?

darawk on March 31, 2018 | [–]

I don't know precisely, but it's pretty obvious that there'd be no way to reconstruct personally identifying info from it.

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