Some folks hate the word "algorithm" to mean roughly "complex computational processes that mediate experience" but... language evolves. #lrt
@blaine @makmanalp So folks from the original domain of CS don't like their word take on a new meaning which I get but.. language you know?
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@zeynep@makmanalp yup! Even in cs, though, only the most pedantic would disagree that any piece of software is broadly an algorithm. -
@blaine@makmanalp Sure. Though in public, it has now come to mean ~"complex software that mediates something important, often subjective."
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