Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Milady and the consequences of violent

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Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction

Publication Date: 21 Jul 2008

This 1973 volume is a fascinating collection of original studies on the immediate consequences and the likely long-term effects of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Milady and the consequences of violentWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our liveswhere we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insuranceare being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules. But as mathematician and data scientist Cathy ONeil reveals, the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and