CWGI #17: A l g o r i t h m s (with Nick Seaver)

The seventeenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, ninety-three minutes of collaborative filtering with Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta, Patrick Harrison, and Asa Roast asking uninformed questions to Nick Seaver. In this episode: cybernetics, algorithms, recommender systems, and methodological cope. Hums and croaks courtesy of postgraduate mobility. LINKS: - Nick Seaver's "Computing Taste": https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo183892298.html - Nick Seaver's scholarship: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GORu8nQAAAAJ&hl=en - Lana Swartz's "New Money": https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300233223/new-money/ - Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan's "Code": https://www.dukeupress.edu/code   Support CWGI: https://en.liberapay.com/CWGI/