algorithm
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The redesigned algorithm dramatically reduces the amount of experimental data required to generate dependable three-dimensional images.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Instead, when I didn’t complete the tutorial, the algorithm canceled my classes.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
The child the algorithm reads as a threat is the child the institution already distrusted.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
AI-generated content is banned, and the platform has been built without an algorithm for advertising placement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
This is a conservative estimate, since the algorithm was able to identify only the most egregious form of cheating—in which teachers systematically changed students’ answers—and not the many subtler ways a teacher might cheat.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
The researchers accomplished this by combining advanced photoelectron spectroscopy with sophisticated mathematical algorithms.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Australia banned under 16s last year from the likes of Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, in a crackdown designed to protect children from online bullying and "predatory algorithms".
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
But over the last decade it’s become even lonelier, with algorithms and vertical video platforms like TikTok siloing users into consumption over interaction.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
"A lot of these algorithms learn from how long users are staying on these videos," he explains.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
He also wrote a book about the Hindu numeral system, which allowed the new style of numbers to spread quickly through the Arab world—along with algorithms, the tricks for multiplying and dividing Hindu numerals quickly.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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