Joho the Blog » algorithms http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger Let's just see what happens Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:48:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Excellent PSA. Bad Algorithm. http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/12/29/excellent-psa-bad-algorithm/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/12/29/excellent-psa-bad-algorithm/#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:29:50 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=12458 This is a terrific public service announcement about the Special Olympics.

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Unfortunately, take a look at the upper right at what YouTube thinks is a related video you might enjoy:

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]]> http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/12/29/excellent-psa-bad-algorithm/feed/ 0 How the robots bid a book up to $23,000,000 at Amazon http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2011/04/23/how-the-robots-bid-a-book-up-to-23000000-at-amazon/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2011/04/23/how-the-robots-bid-a-book-up-to-23000000-at-amazon/#comments Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:46:25 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=10557 Michael Eisen has a terrific post in which he does the detective work to figure out how dueling algorithms from two competing bookstores drove the price of a book about flies up to $23,698,655.93.

I’m sorry that some human noticed and backed the prices down. I would have liked to have seen a financial bubble form as the price went into the trillions.

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