Letting Your Computer Buy You Gifts

Game developer Darius Kazemi has written a program that randomly purchases items from an online retailer and sends them to his home (on a monthly budget, of course.)

Kazemi’s first surprise shipment included a recording of avant-garde European music.

And he liked it.

The World’s Alex Gallafent has the story.

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