Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world (TED)

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... that is baffling to linear-thinking humans.

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Google the book "The (Mis)behavior of Markets" by Benoit Mandelbrot who recently died and was responsible for the founding of fractal geometry and new concepts in the chaos theory. "Strange Attractors" is name for a phenomenon where non-linear algorithms (e.g. the algorithm to paint the Mandelbrot Set is is about 5KB but you do need a fast computer) repeating many times over faster than the human brain works creates a inflection point in the complex interaction...