Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world

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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

• http://www.epagogix.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epagogix

Roomba vs. Neato http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/06/04/irobot-roomba-560-vs-neato-xv-11/

Arial 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

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the Boston Shuffler,
the Boston Shuffle,
# see http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/CCircleDay.html

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like the Boston shuffler could.
like the Boston Shuffle could.

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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

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