noun

algorithm

It wasn’t us, it was the computer.

A set of steps used to solve a specific problem.

No “intelligent” machine behavior is actually “magic”. It is all based on algorithms applied to useful representations of information. When algorithms are applied to large data sets, the result can seem magical because they are making decisions based on more information than any human could process.

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algorithm

It wasn’t us, it was the computer.

A corporate policy enforced by a computer. Any time a tech company promises they have an "algorithm" that does something, just swap in the word "policy."

#corporate policy