Algorithms

A magazine filled with articles showing how algorithms are spreading into our every day lives, for better or for worse.

By Tom Falk

Tom Falk
Cities
New York Just Set a ‘Dangerous Precedent’ on Algorithms, Experts Warn
CityLab - Kate Kaye
NYC’s task force on algorithms was supposed to be a beacon of transparent government. It couldn’t even gain access to basic information. It was supposed to be groundbreaking. When New York City’s task
19 hours ago
Tom Falk
Algorithms
⚡ Why Engineers need to master Data Structures and Algorithms ?
dev.to - Saeed Ahmad
You people may have heard some people saying that “There’s no need to learn DS and Algos” or “They are just waste of time” and similar things. And I …
3 days ago
Tom Falk
Databases
Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables
evanjones.ca
I think it is safe to state that hash tables (e.g. maps in Go, dicts in Python, HashMap in Java, etc.) are far more common than ordered data …
4 days ago
Tom Falk
Programming
TOP 10 ALGORITHMS EVERY SOFTWARE ENGINEER SHOULD KNOW BY HEART
dev.to - kavindu yasintha silva
In the competitive world, most of the people are choosing to study the concept of computer science. There are different types of algorithm now used …
6 days ago
Tom Falk
$Microsoft Math Solver does what it says on the tin (APK Download)$
Technology
Microsoft Math Solver does what it says on the tin (APK Download)
androidpolice.com - Karandeep Singh
While I could never understand the mathematical obsession with solving for x, perhaps Microsoft knows a thing or two about crunching numbers. The …
6 days ago
Tom Falk
Lee Hsien Loong
Mathematician Finds Easier Way to Solve Quadratic Equations
Popular Mechanics - By Caroline Delbert
A mathematician has derived an easier way to solve quadratic equation problems, according to MIT's Technology Review. Quadratic equations are polynomials that include an x², and teachers use them to teach
6 days ago
Tom Falk
Machine Learning
A*: Adding Heuristics to Dijkstra
towardsdatascience.com - Rıza Özçelik
A* speeds up the well-known Dijkstra algorithm by leveraging heuristics. Assume that we have a graph G with more than two nodes and pick two nodes a and …
November 23
Tom Falk
Machine Learning
Google's new AI tool could help decode the mysterious algorithms that decide everything
ZDNet - Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
The search giant launches "Explainable AI" to make algorithms more transparent and customers less confused. IBM launches anti-bias toolkit to help …
November 21
Tom Falk
Business
Why Business Leaders Need to Understand Their Algorithms
Harvard Business Review - Mike Walsh
One of the biggest sources of anxiety about AI is not that it will turn against us, but that we simply cannot understand how it works. The solution to rogue systems that discriminate against women in applications
November 19
Tom Falk
Nature Photography
"Removing the water": physically-accurate color correction algorithm for underwater photography
boingboing.net - Rob Beschizza
Researcher Derya Akkaynak developed a photogrammetry algorithm that corrects underwater photography to remove color haze created by backscattering -- …
November 14
Tom Falk
Marketing
What Is BERT? - Whiteboard Friday
moz.com - Britney Muller
There's a lot of hype and misinformation about the new Google algorithm update. What actually is BERT, how does it work, and why does it matter to our …
November 8
Tom Falk
Building a Large-scale Distributed Storage System Based on Raft
cncf.io - cncf
Guest post by Edward Huang, Co-founder & CTO of PingCAP In recent years, building a large-scale distributed storage system has become a hot topic. …
November 4
Tom Falk
One and only flow | Depth First Search Algorithms Practice Problems
hackerearth.com
You are given a network of directed graph of $N$ vertices and $M$ edges, where every edges' capacity is $1$. An ordered pair \((u, v), …
November 4
Tom Falk
Congress Wants Digital Platforms To Release Their Algorithms – Why?
pymnts.com - Karen Webster
U.S. lawmakers proposed new legislation last week that would require internet platforms to more or less lay bare the intellectual property that …
November 4
Tom Falk
Decision Tree Regressor explained in depth
towardsdatascience.com - Georgios Drakos
Decision Tree algorithm has become one of the most used machine learning algorithm both in competitions like Kaggle as well as in business …
May 23
Tom Falk
Algorithms 101, Count Primes in JavaScript
Medium - Joan Indiana Lyness
Before we get started on today’s challenge, a word about prime numbers: They are, of course, numbers that are greater than one that are divisible …
October 28
Tom Falk
Technology
Google Offers Peek at Secretive Search Algorithm Changes
The Wall Street Journal. - Rob Copeland
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google rarely talks about its secretive search algorithm. This week, the tech giant took a stab at transparency, unveiling changes that it says will surface more accurate and intelligent
October 25
Tom Falk
A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced
Quanta Magazine - Jordana Cepelewicz
Researchers have discovered a surprising mathematical relationship in the brain’s representations of sensory information, with possible applications …
October 22
Tom Falk
A Time Series Analysis of Lake Erie From 1921 to 1970 Using A SARIMA Model
towardsdatascience.com - Leihua Ye
• Constructed a Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) model to track for monthly water levels in Lake Erie for five decades. Keep the …
October 21
Tom Falk
$Mathematicians report way to facilitate problem solving in queueing theory$
Mathematicians report way to facilitate problem solving in queueing theory
phys.org - RUDN University
RUDN University mathematicians proved a theorem that will facilitate the solution of problems in queueing theory—a branch of mathematics that …
October 18
Tom Falk
MIT Helps Robots Adjust Grip With New Algorithms
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
You might not notice how easily you can shift your grip while picking up an object, but robotics engineers think about that a lot. Even the most …
October 17
Tom Falk
Algorithms Are Designed to Addict Us, and the Consequences Go Beyond Wasted Time
singularityhub.com - Thomas Hornigold
Goethe’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is a classic example of many stories in a similar theme. The young apprentice enchants a broom to mop the floor, …
October 17
Tom Falk
Technology
Can you make AI fairer than a judge? Play our courtroom algorithm game
MIT Technology Review - Karen Hao
The US criminal legal system uses predictive algorithms to try to make the judicial process less biased. But there’s a deeper problem. As a child, you …
October 17
Tom Falk
Mathematics
Mathematicians Have Discovered an Entirely New Way to Multiply Large Numbers
ScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill
A pair of mathematicians from Australia and France have devised an alternative way to multiply numbers together, while solving an algorithmic puzzle …
October 17
Tom Falk
Decision Tree Classifier from Scratch: Classifying Student’s Knowledge Level
towardsdatascience.com - Anish Shrestha
Welcome to a place where words matter. On Medium, smart voices and original ideas take center stage - with no ads in sight. Watch Follow all the …
October 16
Tom Falk
Implementing Dijkstra Algorithm in Go
deployeveryday.com - Jonatas Baldin
I didn’t go through Computer Science, had a very early dropout. Since I started working in the tech space, I cared a lot about RESTful APIs, …
October 16
Tom Falk
How Bristol assesses citizens' risk of harm – using an algorithm | Bristol | The Guardian
The Guardian - Robert Booth
How Bristol assesses citizens’ risk of harm – using an algorithm Almost a quarter of population of city is processed by algorithm used to guide actions of frontline staff Day and night, an IBM computer
October 15
Tom Falk
Technology
Mozilla unveils 28 horror stories about YouTube’s recommendation algorithm
TNW - Már Másson Maack
Mozilla just launched a site featuring 28 user-submitted stories, detailing incidents where YouTube’s recommendation algorithm served bizarre and horrifying videos the users had shown no interest in. included
October 15
Tom Falk
How Pinterest Built One of Silicon Valley’s Most Successful Algorithms
Medium - Will Oremus
Like most social networks, Pinterest was built on assumptions and biases. Unlike most social networks, Pinterest admits it. From the start, you tell …
October 14