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February 11, 2023 93 mins

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

 

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