The author of the best-selling 20 Per Gallon traces the rise of computerized decision making to explore how it has become a pervasive aspect of life, revealing how cleverly designed bots are helping and hindering todays world while considering how algorithm technology will shape the near future. Traces the rise of computerized decision making to explore how it has become a pervasive aspect of life, revealing how cleverly designed bots are helping and hindering todays world while considering how algorithm technology will shape the near future.
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1 Wall Street, the First Domino |
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2 A Brief History of Man and Algorithms |
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4 The Secret Highways of Bots |
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8 Wall Street Versus Silicon Valley |
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9 Wall Sreet's Loss is a Gain for the Rest of Us |
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10 The Future Belongs to the Algorithms and their Creators |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Notes |
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Christopher Steiner is the cofounder and co-CEO of Aisle50, a Y Combinator start-up offering online grocery deals. An engineer, Steiner was previously a technology journalist at Forbes magazine and the Chicago Tribune. His first book, $20 Per Gallon, was a national bestseller.
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