Algorithm

Flowcharts are algorithms visualized

Algorithms are the instructions that determine what a computer will do. In this wiki, it can also refer to the generating equation that determines what a universe or culture will do.

"The Algorithm" also refers to the way that social media companies construct your newsfeed using AI that is incentivized for attention and therefore outrage.

Thinking algorithmically helps you break down complex processes into their individual steps and decision trees. In a computerized society increasingly controlled by algorithms, understanding how they work is pretty important to understanding how modern society works.

Algorithm Pages

• Recursion
• Feedback loop
• Self-Organization
• Self-Similarity
• Generating equation
• AI
• Neural network
• Platforms
• Promotion
• Outrage

Algorithm Videos

Don't let the algorithm choose what you watch next! The more you learn about algorithms the less they can control you!

What is an algorithm?

What exactly is an algorithm?

MIT Lecture Series - Algorithmic Thinking

Algorithms are Destroying Society

Radiohead - Paranoid Android (Full Album)