[Ads-l] QUOTM?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Shouldn't that be, "math dethtruction"?

JL

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 9:12 PM George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
wrote:

> Quotation of the Millenium?
>
> The same TLS that gave us the antedating of "Christmas card" also carried
> an excerpt from a forthcoming book on "Ridiculously Complicated Algorithms"
> and how they are screwing us over.  By Carl Miller; to be published by
> William Heinemann in 2018.
> The excerpt contains the sentence
> "Weapons of math destruction" is how the writer Cathy O'Neal describes the
> nasty and pernicious kinds of algorithms that are not subject to the same
> challenges that human decision makers are.
>
> GAT
>
> --
> George A. Thompson
> The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998.
>
> But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
> your lowly tomb. . .
> L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112
>
> The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
> picture of his great-grandfather.)
>
> http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851
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