Collaboration
This website is a collaboration to write a paper on how to use uncertainty analysis and risk science to improve the fairness, friendliness, efficacy and correctness of algorithms that automate or inform practical decision making.
Please make additions and improvements to the paper directly on this website. To make a change or add text, just click on the circled pen icon below (in the lower, right corner of the page). When you're done, be sure to publish your edits by clicking the blue Publish button in the upper, right corner of the page, and then again on the following page. To see previous versions and compare revisions, select Version History from the More menu ⋮ (on the right above). Create placeholders or pose questions in the text that should be expanded or resolved by others by enclosing them in double angle brackets <<like this>>. More enduring or 'meta' commentary can be contributed to this collaboration as a comment at the bottom of any page. Use the Roman style of addressing and signing your comments, e.g, "<<Scott asks Edo: how will this work?>>" or "<<Scott asks: does anyone know about this?>>". Any text or material that is temporary, should be enclosed in double angle brackets, so it cannot slip by us in editing later. It is easy to include pictures, graphs and equations here. You can upload pictures in PNG, JPG, or TIF files using the Insert/Image menu option while you're editing. Slides in a PowerPoint presentation can be converted to these formats by using the Save As menu option. Mathematical equations can be inserted by creating an image with texifying and copying the image (not the code or URL link) into the text while editing. To get special characters you can copy é è ä ö ç à α γ β ε − × ± · • ® or symbols from the more complete HTML character table and paste into the text.
Please use this website, rather than sending emails or distributing files to each other directly or severally. This will better enable us to keep track of our discussions and progress. You can use the Files page to upload any files you want everyone to be able to access. Likewise, instead of (or at least in addition to) sending e-mails, you should post on the Say page anything you want to broadcast to all collaborators. This will allow us to maintain a record of our discussions. You can edit things you previously posted. You can also add comments and attach files to the bottom of any page. Don't feel that you have to post about every little thing. It's usually better if you go ahead and directly add new material to a page or make a change to a page, rather than merely talking about it. If something should be fixed, go ahead and fix it by editing the page directly. If appropriate, you can highlight the change in blue to indicate an uncontroversial change, or in red to indicate changes you want the collaborators to be sure to notice. Other colors, including background colors, may also be used.