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Hannah Fry
English
Mathematician
Born:
1984
Best
Every
People
Think
World
You
Imagine life without any algorithms at all, you wouldn't be able to do anything. This is already completely encompassing. We have a habit of over-trusting what mathematics or computer scientists tell us to do, without questioning it, too much faith in the magical power of analysis.
Hannah Fry
Life
Faith
Mathematics
You
Too Much
Power
Too
Analysis
Tell
Able
Magical
Habit
Computer
Without
Scientists
Encompassing
Questioning
Any
Anything
Us
Much
Imagine
But the threat of a pandemic is different from that of a nerve agent, in that a disease can spread uncontrollably, long after the first carrier has succumbed.
Hannah Fry
Long
First
Pandemic
Carrier
Threat
Nerve
Spread
Disease
Different
After
Agent
Succumbed
No weather forecaster can tell you for sure when to wear a rain slicker, stock up on canned goods, or evacuate a city that's in a cyclone's path. All forecasters can offer is their best guess at the atmosphere of the future, whispered by the simulated blue marble and wrapped up in uncertainty.
Hannah Fry
Future
Best
You
Rain
Path
Weather
Guess
Tell
City
Wear
Wrapped
Atmosphere
Uncertainty
Simulated
Goods
Sure
Up
Stock
Offer
Blue
Canned
Whispered
Marble
Whenever we haven't got enough information to make decisions for ourselves, we have a habit of copying the behaviour of those around us.
Hannah Fry
Enough
Those
Ourselves
Habit
Make
Around
Got
Behaviour
Whenever
Information
Decisions
Us
Copying
And anytime a programmer makes a decision about how to deal with data, how to average it or clean it, you're imparting more of your own bias on it.
Hannah Fry
You
Decision
Own
About
Imparting
Data
More
Clean
Bias
Deal
Makes
How
Anytime
Average
Your
Programmer
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