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“We have to learn to interrogate our data collection process, not just our algorithms.”
― Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
― Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
“The irony, thought, is that that very desire for confidence is precisely what ends up undermining the accuracy of their decision”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“Big Data processes codify the past. They do not invent the future. Doing that requires moral imagination, and that’s something only humans can provide. We have to explicitly embed better values into our algorithms, creating Big Data models that follow our ethical lead. Sometimes that will mean putting fairness ahead of profit.”
― Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
― Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
“Men know the damage a few words can do to girls’ hearts, and, idiots that we are, we swoon away and fall into the trap, excited because at last a man has set one for us”
― La liste de mes envies
― La liste de mes envies
“I have tried hard - but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was no use anywhere else. What can one do when one finds out that one only fits into one hole? One must go back to it or be thrown out into the rubbish heap - and you don't know what it's like in the rubbish heap!”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
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This group will have as a main purpose to bring different perspectives together by discussing shared books and stories.
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Book Club based in Beirut. We meet at least once a month to discuss a book. We vote on lists of books and pick one or two books to read for each month ...more
Elia’s 2025 Year in Books
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