A good review of our May book from the Scientific American blog Roots of Unity:
… Continue readingO’Neil talks about financial WMDs and her experiences , but the examples in her book come from many other facets of life as well: college
Month: April 2018
May: Weapons of Math Destruction
Our book for May will be Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, written in 2016 by Cathy O’Neil.
… Continue readingWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where
August: Functional Thinking
For August we’ll be reading Neil Ford’s 2014 O’Reilly title, Functional Thinking: Paradigm Over Syntax.
… Continue readingRather than focus on specific language features, Functional Thinking looks at a variety of common practices in OOP languages and then shows you how