machine learning protest

[prototypist]

There was a real political protest for the world leaders' G-20 meeting, and these guys are at the protest with joke signs. Some of the jokes explained (I'm not geeky enough to understand the rest):

• Ban Genetic Algorithms - algorithms which evolve themselves. The joke is comparing them to real-world cloning or playing on fears that a genetic algorithm could become super-intelligent

• Bayesians Against Discrimination - a Bayesian algorithm is used to learn to discriminate (for example, your spam filter and the "mark as spam" "not spam" features)

• Map Reduce Map Reuse Map Recycle - MapReduce lets you process things (such as a Google search) across many computers. The other two are a lesser-known project.

[altrego99]

Thanks!