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How Data Happened

A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

de Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones ...

**“Fascinating.” —Jill Lepore, The New YorkerA sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world.**From facial recognition—capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But ... Leer más

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**“Fascinating.” —Jill Lepore, The New YorkerA sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world.**From facial recognition—capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But
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數據與權力：控制世界的數據科學、資料分析與AI演算法，如何影響我們下決定

How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

de 克里斯．威金斯（Chris Wiggins）, 馬修．瓊斯（Matthew L. Jones） ...

Traducido por 吳國慶 ...

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一部關於數據及其技術、政治和倫理影響的恢弘歷史追溯從理性時代到當今演算法時代的數據及其分析應用的發展理解數據發展的起源，並思考數據在歷史中的地位探討數據造成的影響，思考演算法與人工智慧帶來的隱憂分析大企業與政府如何形塑大規模監控，並反思科技造成的困境透過歷史視角，全面展現數據科學的發展歷程，深入探討社會影響從可以為旅客辦理登機或識別無證居民的人臉識別技術，到決定誰能獲得貸款、誰能獲得保釋的自動化決策系統，我們每個人都生活在一個由數據賦能的演算法所主導的世界中。然而，這些技術並非憑空出現，而是一段延續了數世紀的歷史之一部分，從美國憲法中確立的人口普查，到維多利亞時代英國優生學的誕生，再到谷歌搜索的發展。基於他們在哥倫比亞大學開設的熱門課程，兩位作者克里斯．威金斯（Chris Wiggins）和馬修．瓊斯（Matthew L. Jones）深入闡述了數據資料長期以來如何被用作論證真理的工具和武器 ... Leer más

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一部關於數據及其技術、政治和倫理影響的恢弘歷史追溯從理性時代到當今演算法時代的數據及其分析應用的發展理解數據發展的起源，並思考數據在歷史中的地位探討數據造成的影響，思考演算法與人工智慧帶來的隱憂分析大企業與政府如何形塑大規模監控，並反思科技造成的困境透過歷史視角，全面展現數據科學的發展歷程，深入探討社會影響從可以為旅客辦理登機或識別無證居民的人臉識別技術，到決定誰能獲得貸款、誰能獲得保釋的自動化決策系統，我們每個人都生活在一個由數據賦能的演算法所主導的世界中。然而，這些技術並非憑空出現，而是一段延續了數世紀的歷史之一部分，從美國憲法中確立的人口普查，到維多利亞時代英國優生學的誕生，再到谷歌搜索的發展。基於他們在哥倫比亞大學開設的熱門課程，兩位作者克里斯．威金斯（Chris Wiggins）和馬修．瓊斯（Matthew L. Jones）深入闡述了數據資料長期以來如何被用作論證真理的工具和武器
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Data Science in Context

Foundations, Challenges, Opportunities

de Alfred Z. Spector, Peter Norvig, Chris Wiggins, Jeannette M. Wing ...

Data science is the foundation of our modern world. It underlies applications used by billions of people every day, providing new tools, forms of entertainment, economic growth, and potential solutions to difficult, complex problems. These opportunities come with significant societal consequences, raising fundamental questions about issues such as data quality, fairness, privacy, and causation. In ... Leer más

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Data science is the foundation of our modern world. It underlies applications used by billions of people every day, providing new tools, forms of entertainment, economic growth, and potential solutions to difficult, complex problems. These opportunities come with significant societal consequences, raising fundamental questions about issues such as data quality, fairness, privacy, and causation. In
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How Data Happened

A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

de Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones ...

Narrado por Eric Jason Martin ...

Completo

10 hora 27 minutos

A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world.From facial recognition—capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform everything from who gets loans to who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

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A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world.From facial recognition—capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform everything from who gets loans to who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear:
... Leer más

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If/Then

How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

de Jill Lepore ...

Narrado por Jill Lepore ...

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10 hora 39 minutos

From the best-selling author of These Truths, an “exhilarating” (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era.The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge—decades before Facebook, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica.Although Silicon Valley likes to ... Leer más

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From the best-selling author of These Truths, an “exhilarating” (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era.The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge—decades before Facebook, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica.Although Silicon Valley likes to
... Leer más

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American Inheritance

Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795

de Edward J. Larson ...

Narrado por David de Vries ...

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11 hora 19 minutos

From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding."Gut-wrenching. . . . While acknowledging that the study of liberty and slavery in the Revolutionary era remains a 'partisan minefield,' Mr. Larson plunges in, sparing none of the era's most prominent revolutionaries from scrutiny." —Harold Holzer, Wall ... Leer más

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From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding."Gut-wrenching. . . . While acknowledging that the study of liberty and slavery in the Revolutionary era remains a 'partisan minefield,' Mr. Larson plunges in, sparing none of the era's most prominent revolutionaries from scrutiny." —Harold Holzer, Wall
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Playing with Reality

How Games Have Shaped Our World

de Kelly Clancy ...

Narrado por Patty Nieman ...

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11 hora 39 minutos

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND THE GUARDIAN“Absorbing. . . . A revealing look at the hidden role that games have played in human development for centuries.” —Kirkus“By turns philosophical and polemical, this is a provocative and fascinating book.” —The EconomistA wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at ... Leer más

$22.99 USD

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**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND THE GUARDIAN“Absorbing. . . . A revealing look at the hidden role that games have played in human development for centuries.” —Kirkus“By turns philosophical and polemical, this is a provocative and fascinating book.” —The EconomistA wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at
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Culture

The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

de Martin Puchner ...

Narrado por John Sackville ...

Completo

10 hora 33 minutos

What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"—the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has required the radical integration of insights from the past ... Leer más

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What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"—the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has required the radical integration of insights from the past
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Foolproof

Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity

de Sander van der Linden ...

Narrado por Sander van der Linden ...

Completo

10 hora 11 minutos

From fake news to conspiracy theories, from inflammatory memes to misleading headlines, misinformation has swiftly become the defining problem of our era. The crisis threatens the integrity of our democracies, our ability to cultivate trusting relationships, even our physical and psychological well-being—yet most attempts to combat it have proven insufficient.With remarkable clarity, Sander van ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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From fake news to conspiracy theories, from inflammatory memes to misleading headlines, misinformation has swiftly become the defining problem of our era. The crisis threatens the integrity of our democracies, our ability to cultivate trusting relationships, even our physical and psychological well-being—yet most attempts to combat it have proven insufficient.With remarkable clarity, Sander van
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Under Alien Skies

A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

de Philip Plait PhD ...

Narrado por Philip Plait PhD ...

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9 hora 19 minutos

A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, revealing the sky as never seen before―from everywhere but Earth.How would Saturn’s rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what’s the last thing you’d see before your spaghettification? What would it be like to visit the faraway places we currently experience only through high-powered ... Leer más

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A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, revealing the sky as never seen before―from everywhere but Earth.How would Saturn’s rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what’s the last thing you’d see before your spaghettification? What would it be like to visit the faraway places we currently experience only through high-powered
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No Democracy Lasts Forever

How the Constitution Threatens the United States

de Erwin Chemerinsky ...

Narrado por Daniel Thomas May ...

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7 hora 23 minutos

No Democracy Lasts Forever argues that the Constitution has become a threat to American democracy and must be dramatically changed or replaced if secession is to be avoided.Deeply troubled by the Constitution's inherent flaws, Erwin Chemerinsky, the renowned dean of Berkeley law school, came to the sobering conclusion that our nearly 250-year-old founding document is responsible for the crisis now ... Leer más

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No Democracy Lasts Forever argues that the Constitution has become a threat to American democracy and must be dramatically changed or replaced if secession is to be avoided.Deeply troubled by the Constitution's inherent flaws, Erwin Chemerinsky, the renowned dean of Berkeley law school, came to the sobering conclusion that our nearly 250-year-old founding document is responsible for the crisis now
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Well of Souls

Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History

de Kristina R. Gaddy ...

Narrado por Chanté McCormick ...

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9 hora 12 minutos

An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music.In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century, when ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music.In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century, when
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