the future of cyber war is not calling everything “cyber”
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we lost that battle long ago.
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*cyberbattle
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Any ideas for a better word for "algorithm"—as in FB newsfeed, not heapsort—while we're at it? Maybe "cyberalgorithm"?
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I’m sure Facebook would love to call it a “palgorithm”.
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There is no i in palgorithm, just a global community; oh, wait, there is an i, but hey, there is a pal in palgorithm...
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Algorithm has come to mean: ~"complex, often proprietary, software system used to make decisions in an opaque manner." +
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the thing that makes me take pause is “algorithm” implies an understanding of how something works, even if it’s complex
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Replying to @Pinboard
Right. We explain it with "it's like instructions for tying your shoelaces or a recipe" (I do, too!) but that's misleading.
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Replying to @zeynep
yeah, with Facebook recommendations it’s more like “a gut feeling for a computer”. Robot intuition!
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Algorithm=you'll probably click on this, who knows, anyway, since nobody counterfactual on simultaneous other planets, here goes..
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