{"id":71,"date":"2017-01-13T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2017\/01\/13\/does-nicolas-bourbaki-read-charles-dikkens\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T11:26:00","slug":"does-nicolas-bourbaki-read-charles-dikkens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2017\/01\/13\/does-nicolas-bourbaki-read-charles-dikkens\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Nicolas Bourbaki read Charles Dikkens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let&#8217;s start the year with an example that is, at least superficially, on the light-hearted side:\u00a0 librarians creating fake patrons to check out important books that would otherwise be discarded for lack of popularity.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Underneath are two deep and important dysfunctions.\u00a0 The specific one &#8212; aiming to show people only what they are likely to want to see based on popularity &#8212; is how fake news spreads virally.\u00a0 The generic one is the idea that metrics provide a straight line to decisions with no thought or interpretation required along the way.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The problem here isn&#8217;t the collection of data: it&#8217;s the blind adherence to data over human judgment, the use of data as a shackle rather than a tool.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2017\/01\/02\/automated-book-culling-softwar.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2017\/01\/02\/automated-book-culling-softwar.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start the year with an example that is, at least superficially, on the light-hearted side:\u00a0 librarians creating fake patrons to check out important books that would otherwise be discarded for lack of popularity.Underneath are two deep and important dysfunctions.\u00a0 The specific one &#8212; aiming to show people only what they are likely to want&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2017\/01\/13\/does-nicolas-bourbaki-read-charles-dikkens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does Nicolas Bourbaki read Charles Dikkens?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-perils-of-metrics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}