TE
TechEcho
Home24h TopNewestBestAskShowJobs
GitHubTwitter
Home

TechEcho

A tech news platform built with Next.js, providing global tech news and discussions.

GitHubTwitter

Home

HomeNewestBestAskShowJobs

Resources

HackerNews APIOriginal HackerNewsNext.js

© 2025 TechEcho. All rights reserved.

Tracking the Trackers: using machine learning to aid ethical decisions

48 pointsby driminicusover 5 years ago

1 comment

motohagiographyover 5 years ago
There are at least a couple commercial offerings that do something similar.<p>There are non-trivial challenges in identifying qualitative code behaviour with static analysis, then the problem of whether you can dynamically exercise a sufficient majority of code paths in a program and classify the results is also a hard one.<p>This can work well as an open source project because it&#x27;s basically an advisory tool where the user takes on the risk and ownership of the results. Commercially this is hard because the confusion matrix of the classifier is going to exclude customers with a high sensitivity to false-negatives. Great project, and good to move the state of the art on this forward.