Why numbers make us numb(er).
Why citing "data" as your justification can be no less arbitrary than "Because I said so."
Why machine recommendations are by, and for, machines.
Brain, n. That with which we think we think. I first heard that joke when I was, I believe, ten years old. I first read Douglas Hofstader’s Gödel, Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid when I was about ten years...