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Hannah Fry's conversational tone makes for an easily digestible, light-touch, book. Assuming no prior knowledge, she provides brilliantly simple explanations of concepts such as random forests, neural networks, and bayes theorem, allowing you to delve straight into the given examples. She highlights the issues with treating algorithms as an authoritative presence, bringing up important ethical questions, and prompting you to think about how the applications of algorithms may affect your life. In an age of polarised opinions she brings a much needed middle-ground view. Algorithms are useful but we need to understand that they are not perfect - however, neither are humans on their own. We should be striving for improvement, utilising the strengths of humans and algorithms together. One a side note, one thing I found odd was her use of American English, given she is a British author.