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 DNA databases that are unimaginably valuable. Get people to pay you to add their DNA to… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
The Gottman Institute's study about arguments in long-term relationships concludes that couples with the best chance at long-term success are the ones with a low negativity threshold: if something's wrong, they speak up about it immediately. That's something I've taken… — 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 could be utterly devastating. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
You can't assess the value of an innovation in isolation, you have to consider whose hands it's in. — 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 these huge… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
