And he's even in favor of what he calls "algorithmic accountability" (embedding laws in algorithms) which will regulate the pricing of sharing economy companies.
This kind of parameters is called algorithmic parameters as they are computed from the software algorithm.
In another contribution to "Beyond Transparency," the technology publisher and investor Tim O'Reilly, one of Silicon Valley's in-house intellectuals, celebrates a new mode of governance that he calls "algorithmic regulation".
Twitter helps define what is important by what Mr. Shirky has called "algorithmic authority," meaning that if all kinds of people are pointing at the same thing at the same instant, it must be a pretty big deal.
On the Johnson blog a couple of years ago, I called algorithmic courtesy "a pretty cold way of expressing a warm emotion", and that goes for the closings of e-mails.My poor friend's problem was the opposite: she tried, with genuine good will, to express some human emotion to someone she was going to hire for a hard and sweaty task.
High-frequency trading (HFT), also called algorithmic trading, is an imprecise term that currently has no legal or regulatory definition.
The conjecture of the last fifteen years of joint research has been that any bottom-up organization may be made operational using two biologically inspired methods called "algorithmic lateral inhibition", a generalization of lateral inhibition anatomical circuits, and "accumulative computation", a working memory related to the temporal evolution of the membrane potential.
For his recent master thesis, Algorithmic Menagerie, Kwok used computer software to create what he calls "algorithmic creatures".
An effort I am involved with, called algorithmic accountability, seeks to make the influences of those sorts of systems clearer and more widely understood.
