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Contents
The talk
TED http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world.html
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDaFwnOiKVE
dotSUB http://dotsub.com/view/e45feb1a-1f45-4aef-ac1f-cefeebbae97f
About the speaker
Area/Code (his co-founded company) http://areacodeinc.com/people/kevin-slavin/
Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/slavin_fpo
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/kevinslavin
LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/slavin
Tumblr http://slavin.tumblr.com/
Flickr http://www.flickr.com/people/slavin_fpo/
Materials on the slides
Michael Najjar http://www.michaelnajjar.com/ (Flash site. The photos of mountains are found under artwork - high altitude [2008-2010])
Nanex's report
- http://www.nanex.net/
- http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/FlashCrashAnalysis.html
- http://www.nanex.net/20100506/FlashCrashAnalysis_Part4-1.html (Knife)
- http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/CCircleDay.html (The Carnival, Boston Shuffle, Twilight)
The Making of a Fly: The Genetics of Animal Design http://www.amazon.com/dp/0632030488
Netflix’s algorithms
- Netflix Prize http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize
- Dinosaur Planet http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lmackey/dinosaurplanet.html
- Gravity http://www.gravityrd.com/gravity/news.php?id=13&gravity=&newsgroupid=4&lang=en
- Pragmatic Chaos http://www2.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/bpc.html
Epagogix
Roomba vs. Neato http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/06/04/irobot-roomba-560-vs-neato-xv-11/
Aerial photo of New York
- The location of the photo is around New York City Hall: map
- The building labeled "CARRIER HOTEL" is 60 Hudson Street
- Other labels (Cherokee Nation, Bluegrass, Marco Polo, Blue Bandsaw, Frog Pond, TILT) are all names appear in the Nanex’s report "May 6'th 2010 Flash Crash Analysis"
Spread Networks http://www.spreadnetworks.com/about-us/vision-and-background
"Planetary-scale computing architectures for electronic trading" is a part of "Handbook of Electronic Trading" (In press). http://www.alexwg.org/
Terms and expressions
Algorithmic trading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_trading
all-in http://www.pokertips.org/glossary/w/ALL-IN "To bet all your chips, or to call with all your chips."
Boston Shuffle - This is name for a peculiar quote sequence and it’s taken from a juggling trick: video. Note that Slavin uses term "Boston Shuffler" instead of "Boston Shuffle".
The Crash of 2:45 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
carrier hotel (colocation centre) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colocation_centre
rock saw images
Errors in the transcript
308 [fixed] 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,000 like the Boston shuffler could. like the Boston Shuffler could. 250 [fixed] 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 So none of this Misha Goss So none of this mishegas # "mishegas" or "mishugas" (alt. spelling) is a Yiddish word meaning "craziness" ... or a crazy mess, it's deep Jewish vernacular. --Slavin
Notes
This talk was held in Session 3 of TEDGlobal 2011 and TED translators attended to the conference were all in left front seats at the time. In the video of this talk, those translators in the audience appear on the screen frequently.
