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What are algorithms?
- niuzeta 9y agoI particularly like the Economist's "explains" section, where they unpack words/phenomenon that experts in the field take for granted in terms that a layman can understand. This is their take on algorithms: > An algorithm is, essentially, a brainless way of doing clever things. It is a set of precise steps that need no great mental effort to follow but which, if obeyed exactly and mechanically, will lead to some desirable outcome.