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Confounding Variables from Historical Bias

Note: co-authored with Christine Assaf, originally published in the now-defunct PASS Blog.
Historical data analysis that is naïve to past discrimination is doomed to parrot bias. How do we combat bias in our...

2020-09-23

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SOLVED! Untrusted SAS certs after SQL startup

If you've tried doing Backup to URL with SQL Server using a Shared Access Signature (SAS) certificate and received this error: Error: 18204, Severity: 16, State: 1.BackupDiskFile::CreateMedia: Backup...

2020-06-16 (first published: )

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