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Reading List: 2019 Edition

Daniel Bryant

Reading about the history of the UK and US spy agencies helped me put into perspective what other countries are doing now, and learning about how the capitalist system is straining at the edges was great context for understanding some of the global economic challenges we face.

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What We Learned Auditing Sophisticated AI for Bias

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The government of the Netherlands resigned in 2021 after an algorithmic system wrongly accused 20,000 families–disproportionately minorities–of tax fraud. System designs can be wrong. The internal control questionnaire in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s MRM Handbook (starting pg. Data can be wrong.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

This working paper was submitted as a chapter in The International Handbook of Lean Organization , Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming. Available at [link] [5] “The Google File System” by Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung, presented at ACM SOSP’03, October 19–22, 2003. How are they getting along?