2018 materials (which seem identical) are available here: https://github.com/propublica/data-institute-2018

The 2019 course is next month, but the deadline to apply has passed.

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What programming language is used for the avionics?

This is a great example of the principle of unintended consequences. It's interesting to reflect on whether sperm banks contracts from decades ago give them protection from lawsuits in such cases. It is even unclear the degree 23me are protected. Both policy makers, on the the regulatory side, and lawyers doing risk management, should take a hard look at stories such as this.

Winograd's thesis, from which SHRDLU comes from, was on natural language processing.

Interesting how back then programming was a woman's job and the racial divide between programmers and operators.

I was discouraged from pursuing any sort of programming/computing-related degree in the early 2000s when I went to college because my parents (who are quite old and do not use computers for any meaningful work) saw it as a secretarial position.

I think the following interview will give you useful context for understanding these publications.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18938917

I expected to see here more discussion of the methodology, tools, data analysis in the report.

One interesting tidbit in the report is the claim that the platforms intentionally scrubbed potentially useful metadata from the data they provided the Senate.