this local mom has discovered how to remove all algorithms on your computer with a weird trick involving magnets, engineers hate her
It's interesting to see how "algorithm" has become a bogeyman among people who write about tech, even people who tend to be relatively well informed. It's as if people want "algorithm" to become the new "radiation". https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/04/what-if-we-paid-for-facebook.html …pic.twitter.com/J7GKcfJ2wt
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It's a word undergoing mitosis splitting into two different words that are spelled and pronounced exactly the same. An algorithm == recipe, procedure, automated function. The algorithm == an inscrutable black box collection of consequential decisions that has power over you.
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Should Facebook's feed curation even be called an "algorithm"? "Make people click on more ads" isn't an unambigously-stated problem like sorting a list is.
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I think that's exactly what's meant by "algorithm" in the wider community though - something you can't verify that has some wiggle room in its results. Wild that it's the exact opposite of the technical usage.
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same as food that contains no chemicals.
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"WhatsApp has no algorithms". Live from WhatsApp central:pic.twitter.com/wMXAu3wKlt
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No algorithms at all. Not even a linked list or linear search.
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Lol, what a fun thought. To my mind a single line of code constitutes an algorithm, even a NOP one-liner. Now imagine a machine that accepts a zero-length program as a single NOP. Then even the absence of code could be interpreted as a null algorithm.
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