You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.
The disconnect I was experiencing was that people hated Wall Street, but they loved tech.
We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.
When I think about whether I want to take a job, I don't just think about whether it's technically interesting, although I do consider that. I also consider the question of whether it's good for the world.
Micro-targeting is the ability for a campaign to profile you, to know much more about you than you know about it, and then to choose exactly what to show you.
There are lots of different ways that algorithms can go wrong, and what we have now is a system in which we assume because it's shiny new technology with a mathematical aura that it's perfect and it doesn't require further vetting. Of course, we never have that assumption with other kinds of technology.
I know how models are built, because I build them myself, so I know that I'm embedding my values into every single algorithm I create and I am projecting my agenda onto those algorithms.
Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.