Monday, September 22, 2008

Supercrunchers by Ian Ayres

At the risk of oversimplifying, this book is about data mining, unless that is just taken as being retrospective. Prospective randomization is "data mining" made possible by automating with computers.

There are multitudes of applications and we are already subjects of scrutiny. Some of this is for our good and some exploits us. We are being watched as surely as a video camera but behind the scenes, computers watching every transaction.

September 2008

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