Surya Prakash Jayanti

Hello World by Hannah Fry is a captivating read. Here are some thought-provoking quotes from the book. No object or algorithm is ever either good or evil in itself. It's how they're used that matters. GPS was invented to launch nuclear missiles and now helps deliver pizzas. Pop music, played on repeat has been deployed as torture device.  Psychologists have been using a system of five characteristics to quantify an individual's personality. You get a score on each of the following traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Collectively, they offer a standard and useful way to describe what kind of a person you are. In the United States spending a year in a high-security prison can cost about the same as going to Harvard. At this point AI is better at spotting Breast cancer than Humans and the pigeons are better than AI (in particular types of cancers). Refining an algorithm often means making a choice between sensitivity ...

Here are some interesting quotes from Kara Swisher's memoir "Burn Book". I leave you to your own devices...I mean that; your phone is the best relationship you all have now, the first thing you pick up in the morning and the last thing you touch at night. You invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress. "You are nobody if you are are not somebody.com" was the saying in early .com days. Storytelling is trying to come up with an idea that is insightful in terms of giving you a different insight into how things work or is amusing. Between speech and truth, he chose speech. Between speed and perfection, he chose speed. Between scale and safety, the chose scale. Tech has always been a mirrortocracy, full of people who liked their own reflection so much that they only saw value in those that looked th...