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I’m not even sure what to think of the term “algorithmic sorting.” Is quicksort considered as algorithmic sorting ... ?
by Jaxan 7y ago
I’m not even sure what to think of the term “algorithmic sorting.” Is quicksort considered as algorithmic sorting ... ?
- hombre_fatal 7y agoI'm referring to "algorithmic" in its negative usage as short-hand for what you can see as of late with regard to Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook's suggestion engines where more complex sorting and filtering is happening than a simple ORDER_BY. Sure, not the best short-hand, but it seems most people understood what I meant. For example, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=algorithm%20youtube&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Like this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20184282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20184282 where people will shorten the "evil" to just "the algorithm".