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Weapons of Math Destruction
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric--with a new afterword "A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent."--Financial Times NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Boston Globe - Wired - Fortune - Kirkus Reviews - The Guardian - Nature - On Point
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance--are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules. But as mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil reveals, the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and uncontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination--propping up the lucky, punishing the downtrodden, and undermining our democracy in the process. Welcome to the dark side of Big Data.
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Weapons of Math Destruction
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabric
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whether we get a loan, how much we pay for insurance - are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated.
And yet, as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and incontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination. Tracing the arc of a person's life, O'Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future, both as individuals and as a society. These "weapons of math destruction" score teachers and students, sort CVs, grant or deny loans, evaluate workers, target voters, and monitor our health.
O'Neil calls on modellers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policy makers to regulate their use. But in the end, it's up to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives. This important book empowers us to ask the tough questions, uncover the truth, and demand change.
Weapons of Math Destruction
Longlisted for the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. But as Cathy O’Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and uncontestable, even when they’re wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination: If a poor student can’t get a loan because a lending model deems him too risky (by virtue of his zip code), he’s then cut off from the kind of education that could pull him out of poverty, and a vicious spiral ensues. Models are propping up the lucky and punishing the downtrodden, creating a “toxic cocktail for democracy.” Welcome to the dark side of Big Data. Tracing the arc of a person’s life, O’Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future, both as individuals and as a society. These “weapons of math destruction” score teachers and students, sort résumés, grant (or deny) loans, evaluate workers, target voters, set parole, and monitor our health. O’Neil calls on modelers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policy makers to regulate their use. But in the end, it’s up to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives. This important book empowers us to ask the tough questions, uncover the truth, and demand change. From the Hardcover edition.
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Elegant Weapons - Horns For A Halo CD
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Tracklist CD:
01. Dead Man Walking
02. Do Or Die
03. Blind Leading The Blind
04. Ghost Of You
05. Bitter Pill
06. Lights Out
07. Horns For A Halo
08. Dirty Pig
09. White Horse
10. Downfall Rising
Legami Kalkulačka Math
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Elegant Weapons - Horns For A Halo 2LP
"Elegant Weapons" bristko americká superskupina Ronnieho Romera (Rainbow/MSG), gitaristu Richieho Faulknera (Judas Priest), basgitaristu Rexa Browna (Pantera/Down) a bubeníka Scotta Travisa (Judas Priest) – vydáva svoj debutový album s názvom „Horns for a Halo“ “ 26. mája 2023 na Nuclear Blast Records.
Tracklist 2LP:
A1 Dead Man Walking
A2 Do Or Die
A3 Blind Leading The Blind
B1 Ghost Of You
B2 Bitter Pill
B3 Lights Out
C1 Horns For A Halo
C2 Dirty Pig
D1 White Horse
D2 Downfall Rising
Voivod - Build Your Weapons: The Very Best Of The Noise Years 1986-1988 2CD
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CD1
1. Korgüll the Exterminator [4:56]
2. Fuck Off and Die [3:34]
3. Ripping Headaches [3:10]
4. Thrashing Rage [4:30]
5. The Helldriver [3:41]
6. Build Your Weapons [4:42]
7. Killing Technology [7:35]
8. Overreaction [4:45]
9. Tornado [6:03]
10. Forgotten In Space [6:11]
CD2
1. Ravenous Medicine [4:21]
2. Order of the Blackguards [4:28]
3. Cockroaches [3:48]
4. Experiment [6:12]
5. Tribal Convictions [4:51]
6. Chaosmongers [4:39]
7. Technocratic Manipulators [4:36]
8. Macrosolutions to Megaproblems [5:34]
9. Brain Scan [5:09]
10. Psychic Vacuum [3:50]
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction CD
Tracklist:
1 „Welcome to the Jungle”
2 „It's So Easy”
3 „Nightrain”
4 „Out ta Get Me”
5 „Mr. Brownstone”
6 „Paradise City”
7 „My Michelle”
8 „Think About You”
9 „Sweet Child o' Mine”
10 „You're Crazy”
11 „Anything Goes”
12 „Rocket Queen”
Nazi Super-Weapons of WWII
This book examines the ten most powerful weapons designed by Nazi Germany during WWII. It provides an analysis of each super-weapon's capabilities, potential for destruction, and combat effectiveness in battlefield conditions.
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Lacná kniha Unspeak: Words Are Weapons (-90%)
Unspeak is language as a weapon. Every day, we are bombarded with those apparently simple words or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings. 'Climate change' is less threatening than 'global warming'; we say 'ethnic cleansing' when we mean mass murder. As we absorb and repeat Unspeak we are accepting the messages that politicians, businessmen and military agencies wish us to believe. Operation Iraqi Freedom did more than put a positive spin on the American war with Iraq; it gave the invasion such a likeable name that the American news networks quickly adopted it as their tagline for reporting on the war. By repackaging the language we use to describe international affairs or domestic politics, Unspeak tries to make controversial issues unspeakable and, therefore, unquestionable. In this thought-provoking and important book, Steven Poole traces the globalizing wave of modern Unspeak from culture wars to the culture of war and reveals how everyday words are changing the way we think.
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Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (Deluxe) 2CD
Tracklist:
1 „Welcome to the Jungle”
2 „It's So Easy”
3 „Nightrain”
4 „Out ta Get Me”
5 „Mr. Brownstone”
6 „Paradise City”
7 „My Michelle”
8 „Think About You”
9 „Sweet Child o' Mine”
10 „You're Crazy”
11 „Anything Goes”
12 „Rocket Queen”
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Destruction - Diabolical CD
Tracklist :
01. Under The Spell
02. Diabolical
03. No Faith In Humanity
04. Repent Your Sins
05. Hope Dies Last
06. The Last Of A Dying Breed
07. State Of Apathy
08. Tormented Soul
09. Servant Of The Beast
10. The Lonely Wolf
11. Ghost From The Past
12. Whorefication
13. City Baby Attacked By Rats (GBH cover)
Destruction - Diabolical LP
Tracklist :
LP
Side A
1. Under The Spell
2. Diabolical
3. No Faith In Humanity
4. Reprent Your Sins
5. Hope Dies Last
6. The Last Of A Dying Breed
7. State Of Apathy
Side B
1. Tormented Soul
2. Servant Of The Beast
3. The Lonely Wolf
4. Ghost From The Past
5. Whorefication
6. City Baby Attacked By Rats
The Weapons of Mystery
The Weapons of Mystery was written in the year 1890 by Joseph Hocking. This book is one of the most popular novels of Joseph Hocking, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: when your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create.
This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with rapid growth and sometimes on disruption as an end in itself. While sweeping digital transformation holds great promise, we have reached an inflection point. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon, and new approaches are needed to manage an era defined by even more powerful inventions like artificial intelligence. Companies that create technology must accept greater responsibility for the future, and governments will need to regulate technology by moving faster and catching up with the pace of innovation.
In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne bring us a captivating narrative from the cockpit of one of the world's largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges that come with no pre-existing playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence, big tech's relationship to inequality, and the challenges for democracy, far and near. While in no way a self-glorifying "Microsoft memoir," the book pulls back the curtain remarkably wide onto some of the company's most crucial recent decision points as it strives to protect the hopes technology offers against the very real threats it also presents. There are huge ramifications for communities and countries, and Brad Smith provides a thoughtful and urgent contribution to that effort.
In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith takes us behind the scenes on some of the biggest stories to hit the tech industry in the past decade and some of the biggest threats we face. From Edward Snowden's NSA leak to the NHS WannaCry ransomware attack, this book is essential reading to understand what's happening in the world around us.
Amongst Our Weapons
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The disappearing act, the reports of a blinding flash of light and memory loss amongst the witnesses all make this a case for Detective Constable Peter Grant and the Special Assessment Unit.
Alongside their boss DCI Thomas Nightingale, the SAU find themselves embroiled in a mystery that encompasses London's tangled history, foreign lands and, most terrifying of all, the North!
And Peter must solve this case soon because back home his partner Beverley is expecting twins any day now. But what he doesn't know is that he's about to encounter something - and somebody - that nobody ever expects...
Effortlessly original, endlessly inventive and hugely entertaining - step into the world of the much-loved, Number One bestselling Rivers of London series.
Incredible Weapons (EN)
Luftwaffe pilots fear one weapon more than any other: British Spitfires. Powerful Rolls Royce engines and an ingenious design make the plane fast and manoeuvrable. In 1940, Spitfires and their fearless pilots resist Hitler’s attempts to bomb Britain to submission. The fighter’s success forces Germany’s leaders to develop even more powerful weapons.
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