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Weapons of math destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy

Name: Weapons of math destruction
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ISBN: 9780553418835

Av O'Neil, Cathy

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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 school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance--are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. ...Vis mer

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9780553418835

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Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

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2017

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Engelsk

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Weapons of math destruction

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