Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil

Weapons of Math Destruction

Cathy O'Neil

288 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics politics science technology challenging informative medium-paced

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We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this s...

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