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Cathy O'Neil
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Books by Cathy O'Neil
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil
star3.9
Mathematician and former Wall Street quant Cathy O'Neil exposes how opaque, unregulated, and unaccountable mathematical models she calls Weapons of Math Destruction are being used to make consequential decisions about employment, lending, policing, and education, often reinforcing existing inequalities. She shows how these models create destructive feedback loops that punish the poor and reward the privileged while operating under an illusion of objectivity.
technologyscience
Most Recommended by Cathy
The books Cathy O'Neil references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
The Signal and the Noise
by Nate Silver
star4
Silver examines why most predictions fail and what separates the rare forecasters who succeed. Think probabilistically, update beliefs with new data, and know how much signal exists in the noise.
sciencebusiness
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
star4.2
Kahneman reveals that our minds run on two systems: fast intuition and slow deliberation. Most errors in judgement come from trusting System 1 when the situation demands System 2's careful analysis.
psychology
Predictably Irrational
by Dan Ariely
star4.3
Ariely demonstrates through experiments that human irrationality is not random but systematic and predictable. Understanding these patterns reveals why we make the same costly mistakes repeatedly.
psychology
The Master Algorithm
by Pedro Domingos
star3.9
Domingos argues that five tribes of machine learning are converging toward one master algorithm capable of learning anything. Understanding these rival approaches reveals how AI actually works.
technologyscience
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Who Cathy draws from, and who draws from Cathy — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.
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