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In popular media "algorithm" has taken on a new meaning, probably because the word itself sounds mysterious. I can't fully define the new meaning, but it's lik
by bonoboTP 6y ago
In popular media "algorithm" has taken on a new meaning, probably because the word itself sounds mysterious.
I can't fully define the new meaning, but it's like the YouTube video recommendation algorithm which is more like a whole system than a single algorithm in the original sense, the Facebook algorithm for ranking items on your feed. These big data, machine learning, opaque models.