By @edent · facebook fiction Tales Of The Algorithm viral · 750 words · read ~1,291 times.
Last week I was on the In The Abstract podcast. I came up with a curious idea. If I were Tom Scott, I'd turn this into a performance piece - instead, here's a short and entirely fictional story. Facebook knew you were in love a long time before you did. It noticed you scrolling back […]
Continue reading →By @edent · fiction future NaBloPoMo Tales Of The Algorithm · 2 comments · 900 words · read ~548 times.
Scene: An airport. A few years from now. "I'm sorry sir, we can't let you on the flight until you visit the rest-room." I'll admit that it caught me off-guard. Surely the woman at the airline gate was joking? "Sir, two of the plane's toilets are out-of-order. At this time we're requesting all passengers void […]
Continue reading →By @edent · AI algorithms fiction Tales Of The Algorithm · 950 words · read ~845 times.
Last week I attended a talk by Dr Irina Higgins from Artificial Intelligence company DeepMind. It was a fascinating look at how their AI works, and how it is trained. Terence Eden is on Mastodon@edentIf you've ever played a video game online, it is likely you've been training an Artificial Intelligence agent without realising it.Ethical?❤️ […]
Continue reading →By @edent · fiction Tales Of The Algorithm unicode · 5 comments · 1,150 words · read ~1,255 times.
I have been receiving letters from a dear friend by the name of Ophiuchus. He has been researching some curious anomalies in the Unicode Standard. While I cannot vouch for all he has written, I thought it worth presenting his discoveries to you. My friend, I bring you a curiosity! I have been engaged in […]
Continue reading →By @edent · crypto nft speculative fiction Tales Of The Algorithm · 4 comments · 700 words · read ~328 times.
David Bowie invented the NFT in 19970. The "Bowie Bond" allowed you to directly invest in an artist's catalogue and receive royalty payments based on their sales. Here's how it worked1: You pay money to the artist (Bowie) Artist uses that money to buy the rights to their back catalogue Every time one of the […]
Continue reading →By @edent · fiction satire Sci Fi speculative fiction Tales Of The Algorithm · 4 comments · 850 words · read ~3,462 times.
(I *sure* this was the basis a short story I read - but I can't find it. So I'm (re)writing it. If you know of the original, please let me know…!) The speed of light is a universal constant. This "speed limit" is fundamental to everything we understand about physics. Information - when propagated via […]
Continue reading →By @edent · near future predictions Tales Of The Algorithm · 2 comments · 850 words · read ~482 times.
As the global demand for safer cars grew, there was a drive for cheaper and more accurate ways to deploy airbags. Thus, car manufacturers turned to MEMS based accelerometers and gyroscopes. Small, accurate, and fast. With increased production, comes increased manufacturing efficiency. So these sensors also became cheap to purchase for everyone. The street finds […]
Continue reading →By @edent · Tales Of The Algorithm · 2,850 words
This is a short piece of mostly fiction. It looks at the secret life of data and algorithms. Enjoy! Data Becomes Her I never knew my mother. OK, no one ever really knows their mum. But I never even got to meet mine. She made it clear at the hospital that she'd smother me to […]
Continue reading →By @edent · Tales Of The Algorithm · 1 comment · 3,200 words
< p>Another short story. This time in the form of a screenplay - formatted with screenplay.css. < p>What do the algorithms get up to behind our backs? The Life Script A play for algorithms SCENE I INTERIOR A DULL LOOKING OFFICE. A BLUE LIGHT SUFFUSES THE STAGE. TWO ALGORITHMS SIT ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER, EACH […]
Continue reading →By @edent · Sci Fi speculative fiction Tales Of The Algorithm · 1 comment · 800 words
The Yamaguchi Foodstuffs Conglomerate emphatically denies causing tumours in vegetables. They did not "give a beansprout cancer". That would be irresponsible and against their 250 year commitment to responsible bio-agriculture development. Every culture has their own version of Grimm's "Der süße Brei". A cautionary tale of a magic porridge dispenser which, thanks to one woman's […]
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