Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-Bubbles - The Algorithms That Control Our Lives

Sumpter, David

  • 出版商: Bloomsbury SIGMA
  • 出版日期: 2018-06-19
  • 售價: $1,040
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$988
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 272
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 147294741X
  • ISBN-13: 9781472947413
  • 相關分類: Algorithms-data-structures
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商品描述

Outnumbered is a journey to the dark side of mathematics, from how it dictates our social media activities to our travel routes. Algorithms are running our society, and as Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has revealed, we don't even realize how our data has been used against us. David Sumpter investigates whether mathematics is crossing dangerous lines when it comes to what we can make decisions about.

Our increasing reliance on technology and the internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy, and what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits, and increasingly we are relinquishing our decision-making to algorithms. Are we giving this up too easily?
Without understanding what mathematics can and can't do it is impossible to get a handle on how it is changing our lives.

In this book, David Sumpter takes an algorithm-strewn journey to the dark side of mathematics. He investigates the equations that analyze us, influence us and will (maybe) become like us, answering questions like:

Who are Cambridge Analytica, and what are they doing with our data?
How does Facebook build a 100-dimensional picture of your personality?
Are Google algorithms racist and sexist?
Why do election predictions fail so drastically?
Are algorithms that are designed to find criminals making terrible mistakes?
What does the future hold as we relinquish our decision-making to machines?

Featuring interviews with those working at the cutting edge of algorithm, Outnumbered explains how mathematics and statistics work in the real world, and what we should and shouldn't worry about.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《Outnumbered》是一本探索數學黑暗面的旅程,從數學如何影響我們的社交媒體活動到旅行路線。演算法正在主導我們的社會,正如Facebook的劍橋分析醜聞所揭示的那樣,我們甚至不知道我們的數據如何被用來對付我們。大衛·桑普特(David Sumpter)調查了數學在我們可以做出決策的事情上是否越過了危險的界線。

我們對技術和互聯網的依賴越來越多,為數學家和數據研究人員打開了一扇窗戶,讓他們窺探我們的生活。通過不斷收集關於我們旅行的數據、我們購物的地方、我們購買的東西以及我們的興趣,他們可以開始預測我們的日常習慣,而我們越來越多地將決策交給了演算法。我們是否太容易放棄了這一點?

如果不了解數學能做什麼和不能做什麼,就無法掌握它如何改變我們的生活。

在這本書中,大衛·桑普特(David Sumpter)帶領我們踏上一段充滿演算法的旅程,探索數學如何分析我們、影響我們,以及它們(也許)將如何成為我們。他回答了以下問題:

劍橋分析是誰,他們在做什麼?

Facebook如何建立你個性的100維圖像?

Google的演算法是否具有種族主義和性別歧視?

為什麼選舉預測如此嚴重失誤?

設計用於尋找罪犯的演算法是否犯下了可怕的錯誤?

當我們將決策交給機器時,未來會發生什麼?

《Outnumbered》通過與在演算法前沿工作的人的訪談,解釋了數學和統計在現實世界中的運作,以及我們應該擔心和不應該擔心的事情。

作者簡介

David Sumpter is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Originally from London, but growing up in Scotland, he completed his doctorate in Mathematics at Manchester, and held a Royal Society Fellowship at Oxford before heading to Sweden. His scientific research covers everything from the inner workings of fish schools and ant colonies, the analysis the passing networks of football teams, segregation in society to machine learning and artificial intelligence.

David has written for The Economist, The Telegraph, Current Biology, Mathematics Today and FourFourTwo magazine, amongst others. He has been awarded the IMA's Catherine Richards prize for communicating mathematics to a wider audience. David's first book was Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

David Sumpter是瑞典烏普薩拉大學應用數學教授。他原籍倫敦,但在蘇格蘭長大,並在曼徹斯特完成了數學博士學位,之後在牛津獲得皇家學會獎學金,然後前往瑞典。他的科學研究涵蓋了從魚群和螞蟻群的內部運作,到足球隊傳球網絡的分析,社會中的隔離問題,以及機器學習和人工智能等領域。

David曾為《經濟學人》、《每日電訊報》、《當代生物學》、《數學今日》和FourFourTwo雜誌等媒體撰寫文章。他曾獲得IMA的Catherine Richards獎,以表彰他將數學傳達給更廣泛的觀眾。David的第一本書是《足球數學:在美麗的遊戲中的數學冒險》。