That time an algorithm whisperer took me to the heart of darkness
by Joel Stein
Jun 17, 2017
3 minutes
SETH STEPHENS-DAVIDOWITZ IS A BRILLIANT, THOUGHTFUL data scientist who studies the complexities of human behavior, which is why no one has heard of him. I, meanwhile, exclusively study my own very simple behavior, which is why I have a Wikipedia page and he doesn’t.
As you can deduce from the title of Stephens-Davidowitz’s recent book, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, he struggles with brevity in naming things as
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