Pamela Weber Harris , a former high school math teacher contends in a new volume, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms, that too many classrooms focus too much on ...

This trade-off isn’t just hypothetical. In an influential 2017 paper titled “Algorithmic Decision Making and the Cost of Fairness,” the researchers argue that algorithms can attain higher ...

Data scientist at TED: Algorithms are a 'weapon of math destruction' that need to be regulated. By Ariel Schwartz. Herwig Prammer/Reuters 2017-04-27T13:31:00Z ...

At issue was an algorithm called Q* (pronounced “Q-star”), which has allegedly been shown to solve certain grade-school-level math problems that it hasn’t seen before.

O’Neil elaborated on a topic she discussed in her book Weapons of Math Destruction — her belief that big data ... Fate of Confederate monuments discussed in joint meeting Algorithms are used every day ...