Emre AlpagutThe Underground Twitter EconomyRapper Fyrare’s Twitter account has around 183.000 followers. He is fairly active on Twitter as well; he tweets multiple times in a week…May 7, 20181May 7, 20181
Emre AlpagutBrushing Up the AlgorithmBrushing owes its coinage to a Chinese idiom translated as “brushing up the record”. The idiom means “to clean up one’s reputation”. It is…Apr 30, 2018Apr 30, 2018
Emre AlpagutOf Finitude and DiversionI recently came across a book written by Hubert Dreyfus. The book is more or less the reflections of a continental philosopher on the sense…Apr 6, 20182Apr 6, 20182
Emre AlpagutConsumer Welfare and MoreBy now, the concerns regarding giant tech companies have become all too familiar. It is furthermore the case that in light of the recent…Apr 2, 20182Apr 2, 20182
Emre AlpagutSpotify and the Wisdom of the MassesThe cooperative valuation mechanism of a stock exchange is presumably apparent to everyone; if enough people think a stock is undervalued…Mar 22, 2018Mar 22, 2018
Emre AlpagutTales of Semiartificial Intelligence and Artificial SemiintelligenceLast week, our professor made some remarks about her first face-to-face interaction with a person whom she had befriended online…Mar 19, 20181Mar 19, 20181
Emre AlpagutTags and NagsWhen I had first heard the notion Artificial ‘Artificial Intelligence’, I thought it was a corny joke. Apparently it is how Amazon…Mar 8, 20181Mar 8, 20181
Emre AlpagutOde to the (Post-) Modern SubjectContemporary society lives and dies by the numbers. The phenomenon is so pervasive that when a phenomenon is not quantified in some way…Mar 1, 20182Mar 1, 20182
Emre Alpagut#OOTT: Organization of Oil Trading TweetersWhether we like it or not, given the current state of affairs, oil makes the world go around. The scope of oil’s impact is extremely large…Feb 23, 20181Feb 23, 20181
Emre AlpagutIf only Mexico paid for the PaywallIn both of our classes so far, we talked about Wikipedia as a virtual community and tried to understand the benefits and commitments of…Feb 15, 20182Feb 15, 20182