GIGAZINE

Experts explain 'what is an algorithm?' In an easy-to-understand manner

Even if you know the word ' algorithm ', many people will not be able to answer well when asked 'what is an algorithm?' The IT news site Mashable, which interviewed computer science experts, explains ...
GIGAZINE

Posts that are easy to be posted on the ``recommended'' timeline found in the source code of Twitter's published algorithm Summary of posts that are difficult to be posted

Twitter's 'recommended' timeline also displays tweets from accounts that users do not follow, but it is unclear what algorithm selects tweets, and it is unclear whether Twitter manipulates the number ...
Inc

Elon Musk’s ‘Algorithm,’ a 5-Step Process to Dramatically Improve Nearly Anything, Is Both Simple and Brilliant

Elon Musk calls it “the algorithm,” a distillation of lessons learned while relentlessly increasing production capacity at Tesla’s Nevada and Fremont factories. According to Walter Isaacson in his new ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

An Algorithm That’s Easy, but Wrong

Thank you for printing the lively article “A Storied Approach to Operations Research” (Notes from Academe, June 14), about Gene Woolsey of the Colorado School of Mines. ... I was especially struck by ...
CNN

Ex-Facebook data scientist on algorithm: They don’t make it easy to opt out

Lawsuit says celebrities were paid to fuel hype behind these NFTs ...
Engadget

It's still really easy to game Facebook's algorithm

Meta’s accounting of the most popular content on Facebook continues to be a confusing mess to untangle. The company released the latest version of its “widely viewed content report,” which details ...