Original website : TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world.html
About this talk :
Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control.
About the speaker :
Kevin Slavin
Kevin Slavin navigates in the algoworld, the expanding space in our lives that's determined and run by algorithms.
Full biography :
http://www.ted.com/speakers/kevin_slavin.html
External links : Home: About : http://about.me/slavin Twitter: @slavin_fpo : http://twitter.com/#!/@slavin_fpo
Video source file :
http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2011G/None/KevinSlavin_2011G-480p.mp4
Under Creative Commons License : Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
... that is baffling to linear-thinking humans.
danno321s 2 weeks ago
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...
danno321s 2 weeks ago