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Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil












The Post-Accident Review Meeting on the Chernobyl Accident (1986) reviewed that poor team’s communication and sleep deprivation were the major issues that have caused the disaster. They don’t gossip, or miscommunicate with each other. They don’t get distracted, tired, or sick. They connect information faster and establish protocols to log input and output data.

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O

It is embedded into users’ everyday tools such as Google’s search, social media networks, movies and music recommendation of Netflix and Spotify, personal assistants, video games, surveillance and security systems.Ĭomputers are much more efficient in replicating endless tasks without committing mistakes. The expansion of these calculation methods are largely due to the use of softwares, able to collect a larger amount of data from different sources. They are logical sequences of instructions that enable autonomous execution by machines.

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O

Automation has been occupying more space in the productive system in today’s society and algorithms are at the core of it.














Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil