The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect: explores the center of scientific inquiry, and yet for decades scientists had no way of answering simple questions, such as whether smoking causes cancer. In The Book of Why, Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie show how...
Weapons of Math Destruction is one of the preeminent books addressing the algorithms that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. Cathy O’Neil...
