Elia

“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“The irony, thought, is that that very desire for confidence is precisely what ends up undermining the accuracy of their decision”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“But such conclusions as that Napoleon was the greatest of modern generals, or that the climate of California is delightful, however incontestable they may be, are not properly facts../p>”
― Strunk Jr., William, Elements of Style

“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.”
― Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy