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Algorithms
In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a step-by-step procedure for calculations. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and automated reasoning.
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It used to be you'd search for something and find tons of good results. Now you type "hamburger" anywhere on your phone or computer and now advertising cartels serve you up some ads for hamburgers for the next week.
Hell just say it aloud near your phone, it'll just take longer.
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― 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
― 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
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We are approaching a soft data catastrophe. Entire lives, from tastes in music and clothes to deepest personal convictions - all produced by networks of feedback between datamining and content recommendation algorithms.
The 'catastrophe' is when these algorithms unconsciously (or maybe, consciously?) lead people down presupposed paths for modern and emerging markets.
Algorithms could right now be helping make people convert to a religion, drug addicts, vegan, LGBTQ, ethnonarcissists, fat, cult
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― 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
― 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
Reading group for The Nature of Computation by Cristopher Moore and Stephan Mertens
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