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I Browsed Amazon for Geek Christmas Gifts
In honour of the people who need to buy geek Christmas gifts, but who don’t want to read or hear about the different Dr Who series’ or parallel batman comic storylines in order to do so, may I present: A Visual Guide to Geek Christmas Gifts: I. The Chaotic Geek You know the type: gifted…
It’s Not About The Algorithm: neuroscience, persuasion, and the bubble effect
In the last few weeks I’ve seen what I can only call algorithm anxiety. The algorithm is fracturing society by bubbling us in echo chambers. Well, I’m going to tell you why it’s not Facebooks or Googles fault people are “bubbled” and why changing their algorithms: 1) will make no difference to the outcome; 2)…
