Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Weapons of Math Destruction

How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

By
Cathy O'Neil
Cathy O'Neil
2016 • 274 pages

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38 books

Informatique

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Life 3.0
The Pragmatic Programmer
The Civilized Engineer
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

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Psychologie Sociologie

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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
Spark
Why Knowledge Matters

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Philosophie

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How Proust Can Change Your Life
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The Coddling of the American Mind

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Math Stats

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The Art of Statistics
Infinite Powers
A Mind For Numbers
Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical
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How to Lie with Statistics
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

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Fascism Far Right Extremism

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Computer Science

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2024

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Politics Science And Technology

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Software

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Non Fiction

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Human and algorithmic biases

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2019

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Business

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