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* The building labeled "CARRIER HOTEL" is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Hudson_Street 60 Hudson Street] | * The building labeled "CARRIER HOTEL" is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Hudson_Street 60 Hudson Street] | ||
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Revision as of 23:53, 28 July 2011
This is a page of resources and discussion for "Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world"
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/ (Flush 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
- 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSM9RNFA3Ic (video)
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
159 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 the Boston Shuffler, the Boston Shuffle, # see http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/CCircleDay.html 308 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,000 like the Boston shuffler could. like the Boston Shuffle could. 368 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 the Boston Shuffler, the Carnival. the Boston Shuffle, the Carnival.
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.
Discussion
Misha Goss?