Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil

Weapons of Math Destruction

Cathy O'Neil

259 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics politics science technology challenging informative medium-paced

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A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life and threaten to rip apart our social fabric. We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to s...

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