[DOWNLOAD -PDF-] Weapons Of Math Destruction Ful

<b><i>New York Times</i> Bestseller</b><br /><b></b><br /><b></b><b>'Fascinating and deeply disturbing' - Yuval Noah Harari, <i>Guardian Books of the Year</i></b><br /><br /><b>'A manual for the 21st-century citizen... accessible, refreshingly critical, relevant and urgent' - Federica Cocco, <i>Financial Times</i> </b><br /><br />A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabric<br /><br />We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whether we get a loan, how much we pay for 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.<br /><br />And yet, as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and incontestabl