Algorithmic Literacies - THE LATE AGE OF PRINT I’ve spent the last few weeks here auditioning ideas for my next book, on the topic of “algorithmic culture.” By this I mean the use of computers and complex mathematical routines to sort, classify, and create hierarchies for our many forms of human expression and association. I’ve been amazed by the reception of these posts, not to mention the extent of their circulation. Even more to the point, the feedback I’ve been receiving has already prompted me to address some of the gaps in the argument — among them, the nagging question of “what is to be done?” I should be clear that however much I may criticize Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and other leaders in the tech industry, I’m a regular user of their products and services. In other words, I don’t mean to suggest that life would be better off without algorithmic culture. It’s this question that’s brought me to the idea of algorithmic literacies, which is something Eli Pariser also talks about in the conclusion of The Filter Bubble.
Personal Democracy Forum Who Does Facebook Think You Are Searching For? | thekeesh.com UPDATE March 28, 2013: Many people have commented here and emailed me that it no longer works for you. I have made an update to fix the bookmarklet for those with Facebook Graph Search. You can get the new bookmarklet here Updated Facebook Friends Ranking Bookmarklet to Work with Graph Search ========================================== UPDATE February 14, 2012: Many people have noted that Facebook has changed stuff in the last several months and so the bookmarklet broke. I have updated it to work on the new filename Facebook is using, and also to match the protocol you are browsing on. Have you ever wondered how Facebook orders your search results? Well Facebook gives explicit numbers to the directed edges (connection going from you to your friend), about how much they think you are looking for this person. To try it out, just drag the image here up to your browser’s bookmark bar. Note: This is really interesting, but may be embarrassing to you. Tested on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
The Anatomy of a Search Engine Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page {sergey, page}@cs.stanford.edu Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Abstract In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems. 1. (Note: There are two versions of this paper -- a longer full version and a shorter printed version. 1.1 Web Search Engines -- Scaling Up: 1994 - 2000 Search engine technology has had to scale dramatically to keep up with the growth of the web. 1.2. Creating a search engine which scales even to today's web presents many challenges. These tasks are becoming increasingly difficult as the Web grows. 1.3 Design Goals 1.3.1 Improved Search Quality Our main goal is to improve the quality of web search engines. 1.3.2 Academic Search Engine Research 2. 2.1 PageRank: Bringing Order to the Web References
Conflicting Codes and Codings How Algorithmic Trading Is Reshaping Financial Regulation Abstract Contemporary financial markets have recently witnessed a sea change with the ‘algorithmic revolution’, as trading automats are used to ease the execution sequences and reduce market impact. Being constantly monitored, they take an active part in the shaping of markets, and sometimes generate crises when ‘they mess up’ or when they entail situations where traders cannot go backwards. algorithmic trading codes of conduct codings financial markets practices regulation SAGE, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore
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Humanities aren’t a science. Stop treating them like one. | Literally Psyched Will math help determine the Illiad's historic accuracy? Image credit: G. V. There’s a certain allure to the elegance of mathematics, the precision of the hard sciences. Take, for instance, a recent paper that draws conclusions about the relative likelihood that certain stories are originally based in real-world events by looking at the (very complicated) mathematics of social networks. But what is the analysis really doing? I’m skeptical of this kind of approach—and not at all sure that it adds anything to our understanding of, well, anything. Can we apply today's standards to analyzing "War and Peace"? I don’t mean to pick on this single paper. It’s one of the things that irked me about political science and that irks me about psychology—the reliance, insistence, even, on increasingly fancy statistics and data sets to prove any given point, whether it lends itself to that kind of proof or not. Kagan himself analyzes the problem in the context of developmental psychology:
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A New Algorithmic Identity Soft Biopolitics and the Modulation of Control Abstract Marketing and web analytic companies have implemented sophisticated algorithms to observe, analyze, and identify users through large surveillance networks online. SAGE, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore Mesure ta pollution Pour moins de 200 euros, l'association Respire et Labo citoyen tentent de mettre au point un capteur citoyen de surveillance de la qualité de l'air, dont les plans et données sont mises à disposition en licence ouverte. Un complément aux mesures officielles et un vrai outil politique. Citoyens capteurs - Photo CC bync Pierre Metivier À peine arrivé à la table matinale de ce café parisien, Gabriel Dulac sort son tournevis pour offrir au regard le contenu du capteur citoyen de qualité de l’air. L’idée de mesures à l’échelle citoyenne n’est pas inédite. Expertise Lancé sur le champ de la mesure de qualité de l’air, Labo citoyen et Respire ont également pu s’inspirer d’autres initiatives ayant défriché le terrain des capteurs à bas coût et de la mise à disposition de données, comme AirQualityEgg. En deux heures de discussion, nous avons gagné cinq mois d’expertise. Anti-Linky La démarche des citoyens capteurs n’est cependant pas strictement scientifique. Bottom-up
20 choses à savoir sur les navigateurs et Internet IllustrationChristoph Niemann Auteurs/éditeursMin Li Chan, Fritz Holznagel, Michael Krantz Directeur du projetMin Li Chan & The Google Chrome Team ConceptionFiPaul Truong DéveloppementFi Remerciements tout particuliers à au format HTML5