How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!”
Sterne

Cathy O’Neil gave a fantastic TED presentation about the use of algorithms to suppress, algorithms which have the biases of their writers or the commissioners resulting in what she calls “weapons of math destruction”, and she’s not wrong.

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