algorithm
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Opta's 'supercomputer' is actually a complex algorithm that uses a model based on betting market odds and the sports analytics company's own 'power rankings', which are calculated using past results.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Olsen: I wonder what your algorithm is like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’s not quite dunking, but it’s like you have to play to the algorithm.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Singles are trying speed dating, connecting through shared real-world interests and even using spreadsheets to break their dating algorithm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The algorithm is a rule that protects the doctors from being swamped with too much information—the same way that the rule of agreement protects improv actors when they get up onstage.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Maryland banned the use of algorithms to vary food prices at the individual level.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Unitree’s humanoid robots can walk, run and climb and “can imitate & reinforce the learning drive” said the company, referring to algorithms that train the robot’s artificial intelligence as it undertakes tasks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Other social media users have hailed the movie as the antidote to the AI slop that is taking over social media algorithms.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The accounts have managed to manipulate the algorithms on major social media sites by sharing emotive and hopeful content to gain more traction.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Scythedom, she knew, had created its own algorithms for searching the unsearchable contents of the backbrain—but Citra couldn’t ask Scythe Curie without making her suspicious.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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