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Strategies for creating such housing often trend toward subsidies, cheap and distant land, density bonuses, special financing, and lower construction quality. But each of these strategies has problems.
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Peter Calthorpe
Identify and eliminate barriers to entry for procurement contracts. Construct scopes of work for projects and programs that don't exclude start-ups and cutting-edge approaches. Consider pilot projects, internal team trainings, technology exchanges, and "entrepreneur- in-residence" programs.
The Art of Learning by Example
Feature Extraction
When Amazon tried to apply machine learning to recruitment, it trained the algorithm on data from résumés that human recruiters had evaluated. As a result, the system reproduced the biases implicit in the humans’ decisions, discriminating against résumés from women.
Spirals of Delusion
foreignaffairs.com
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