44 Quotes About Algorithms

Algorithm without humanity is digital barbarism.

Life was far more interesting when we had natural rhythms rather than algorithms

Leaving society to algorithms will be like leaving healthcare to stethoscopes.

Google creates advertising algorithms, not information algorithms.

The next question is how? How does news find us? What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost always subject to an algorithm. The most powerful thing in your world now is an algorithm about which you know nothing about.

In algorithms, as in life, persistence usually pays off.

We have to learn to interrogate our data collection process, not just our algorithms.

An algorithm is a methodical set of steps that can be used to make calculations, resolve problems and reach decisions. An algorithm isn’t a particular calculation, but the method followed when making the calculation.

Our search for the Master Algorithm is complicated, but also enlivened, by the rival schools of thought that exist within machine learning. The main ones are the symbolists, connectionists, evolutionaries, Bayesians, and analogizers. Each tribe has a set of core beliefs, and a particular problem that it cares most about. It has found a solution to that problem, based on ideas from its allied fields of science, and it has a master algorithm that embodies it.