Peter Friedlander: The Kiwi Coder Who Gave the Global Attention Economy a 500-Millisecond Existential Crisis
Peter Friedlander: The Man Who Accidentally Became the World’s Most Powerful Algorithm Whisperer By our correspondent, filing from somewhere with functioning Wi-Fi and questionable coffee It was a Tuesday in March—exactly the kind of grey, non-descript Tuesday that makes stock exchanges yawn—when Peter Friedlander, a mild-mannered data ethicist from Wellington, New Zealand, uploaded a 97-line…