Pankaj Mehta is a physicist and activist living in the Boston area.
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Big Data Isn’t Just Watching You—It’s Making You Poorer
Cathy O’Neil's new book, Weapons of Math Destruction, shows mathematical models aren't free of ideology.
Pankaj Mehta