Algorithms Quote by Clay Shirky Download Open image “Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.” — Clay Shirky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Algorithms Flaws Good Good job Job Jobs Own
There are lots of different ways that algorithms can go wrong, and what we have now is a system in which we assume because… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
Because, ultimately, we can't just think of algorithms in isolation. We have to think of the failings of the people who design them -… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Imagine life without any algorithms at all, you wouldn't be able to do anything. This is already completely encompassing. We have a habit of… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
We don't let a car company just throw out a car and start driving it around without checking that the wheels are fastened on.… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
Once you see the problems that algorithms can introduce, people can be quick to want to throw them away altogether and think the situation… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don't matter. They ask police… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that… — Amos Tversky Copy Share Image
“One of the implicit principles of computer science, as odd as it may sound, is that computation is bad: the underlying directive of any… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Digital networks are increasing the fluidity of all media. The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that… — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
“Data Scientists should recall innovation often times is not providing fancy algorithms, but rather value to the customer.” — Damian Mingle Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change… — Alexander Stepanov Copy Share Image
[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted. — Andreas Antonopoulos Copy Share Image
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used. — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
“We will start by sketching the recursive algorithm and then add details to get to a full description of the algorithm. Footnote : Translation:… — Sariel Har-Peled Copy Share Image
The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
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