algorithm — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A collection of ordered steps that solve a mathematical problem. A precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps.

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   Informally, an algorithm is any well-defined computational procedure that takes some value, or set of values, as input and produces some value, or set of values, as output. An algorithm is thus a sequence of computational steps that transform the input into the output.

   Mark Zuckerberg: No, I need the algorithm you used to rank chess players. / Eduardo Saverin: Are you OK? / Mark Zuckerberg: We're ranking girls.

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   The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.

   It’s a computer – an algorithm – and if you’ve been in Iran lately, they take you out of the system.

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   Together, the Masons craft a new algorithm to make an end-run around Axe’s sabotage — or so they want him to believe. With the help of a surveillance photo procured by his dirty-deeds specialist Hall (Terry Kinney), Axe has a copy of the algo he spends a full day attempting to decipher before realizing it has a mistake.

2. A flowchart illustrating a decision-making process for human users, especially health care professionals.

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   This retrospective observational analysis evaluated BP [blood pressure] control in an entirely remote management program before and during the pandemic. A team of pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physicians, and nonlicensed navigators used an evidence‐based clinical algorithm to optimize hypertensive treatment. The algorithm was adapted during the pandemic to simplify BP control.

3. Calculation with Arabic numerals; algorism.

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4. recommender systems and the curation of feeds software that makes content display determinations on a platform, in totality of effect upon all end users (within a potential audience).

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5. recommender systems and the curation of feeds the influenced zeitgeist: e.g. what content ends up trending or viral, what persons become a main character or cancelled

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   Glover began his acceptance speech by saying, “First, I want to thank the great algorithm that put us all here.”

6. recommender systems and the curation of feeds the actual personalized selections of content seen by specific user(s), the microtargeting to which they are subject

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   … you and I probably didn't run across that in our algorithm, but that doesn't mean that a lot of people aren't gonna run across garbage like that in their algorithms in the next couple weeks…

Substantiv

1. a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem

   Synonyme

   algorithmic rulealgorithmic program

   Oberbegriffe

   ruleformula