Weekly Filet #31: Writing The Unreadable. And more.
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This week's top recommendation
With stock markets crashing pretty hard these days, this is an interesting reminder in the form of a riveting TED talk. Today, 70 percent of the stock market are operated by algorithms in what's apparently called black box trading. Huge amounts of money are invested or de-invested with no human action involved. The essence of Slavin's talk is that we are now at a point where such complex algorithms are written that we can no longer read. And that we, in fact, have come to rely on them so heavily that we literally let them shape our world.
→ Kevin Slavin: How Algorithms Shape Our World (TED)
Further recommendations
One for the history books: a minute narration of "Operation Geronimo".
→ Getting Bin Laden (The New Yorker)
85 minutes of live music from one of today's most touching musicians, singer/songwriter Justin Vernon aka Bon Iver.
→ Bon Iver, Recorded Live in Concert (NPR)
Long jumping does not exactly seem like the ideal topic for a captivating read. However, you will not want to miss this article on Carl Lewis.
→ The 30 Foot Jump (Sports Illustrated)
A fascinating sculpture constructed from polystyrene blocks.
→ abstrakt Abstrakt: John Powers (Generator.X)
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