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People seemed more interested in patterns over time than overall distributions.
Jeff Hammerbacher • Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
Uber can manage millions of taxi drivers with only a handful of humans.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
is, we take the impossible and downgrade it to costly.
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
It took only a couple of weeks of working for Sam before Caroline Ellison called her mother and sobbed into the phone that she’d just made the biggest mistake of her life. She’d first met Sam at Jane Street, in the summer before her senior year at Stanford, after he’d been assigned to teach her class of interns how to trade. “I was kind of, like, t
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These ideas all have important elements of truth, but they rarely have much space for average poor women or men, with their hopes and doubts, limitations and aspirations, beliefs and confusion.
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
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