I'm a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence. — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
But for me, true art can't be created by accident. There are boundaries to the reach of algorithms. Limits to what can… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
I spend quite a lot of time thinking about how curated our information is. What we watch, what we read, what we… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Curating our data is valuable. Like 23andMe - while selling us the chance to know whether we're Vikings or whatever, they're amassing… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
And anytime a programmer makes a decision about how to deal with data, how to average it or clean it, you're imparting… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
You can harvest any data that you want, on anybody. You can infer any data that you like, and you can use… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
In every community, there are a number of 'social super-spreaders' among us. Long-suspected and emphatically confirmed by our data, these are people… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
We literally hand over our most private data, our DNA, but we're not just consenting for ourselves, we are consenting for our… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
At some point in the future - possibly the very near future - Britain will be hit by a deadly pandemic, and its impact… — Hannah Fry Copy Share
There's barely any aspect of our modern lives that hasn't had a mathematical contribution at some point and yet, if you asked the average… — Hannah Fry Copy Share
When it comes to love, making long-term decisions is a risky business. Sooner or later, most of us decide to leave our carefree bachelor… — Hannah Fry Copy Share
If we permit flawed machines to make life-changing decisions on our behalf - by allowing them to pinpoint a murder suspect, to diagnose a… — Hannah Fry Copy Share
In our urge to automate, in our eagerness to adopt the latest innovations, we appear to have developed a habit of unthinkingly handing over… — Hannah Fry Copy Share
All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without… — Hannah Fry Copy Share
You can't assess the value of an innovation in isolation, you have to consider whose hands it's in. — Hannah Fry Copy Share
Curating our data is valuable. Like 23andMe - while selling us the chance to know whether we're Vikings or whatever, they're amassing these huge… — Hannah Fry Copy Share
A century ago the Spanish flu confounded scientists and devastated whole regions, but while today's society has air travel and an enormous, heterogeneous population,… — Hannah Fry Copy Share
We have this imbalance where the people who are making algorithms aren't talking to the people who are using them. And the people who… — Hannah Fry Copy Share
On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to a point.… — Hannah Fry Copy Share
Wind depends on temperature. Temperature depends on pressure. And pressure depends on wind. It's an intricate mathematical tapestry that is far too intertwined to… — Hannah Fry Copy Share
Everything we're doing online is being not just monitored, but that information is being packaged up and sold and resold to manipulate us. — Hannah Fry Copy Share
Our long-range predictions - especially those which anticipate extreme-weather events - rely on an assumption that the future will be similar to the past.… — Hannah Fry Copy Share
