We all use algorithms every day, but what is an algorithm, exactly? By my definition, an algorithm is a formalized procedure to accomplish a task (this is essentially the same as Wikipedia’s).
Not everything you do is an algorithm. Some things we do have no known good algorithm, such as writing a blog entry. […]
Ask.com has recently launched an ad campaign centered around “the algorithm”. They are obliquely referring to their search algorithm “Teoma” when they say “The algorithm is from Jersey”. They even ran a full-page ad in various major newspapers written in the style of an academic article. The ad is reproduced at thealgorithm.com. […]
Howdy. This is my blog about algorithms.
Posts will fall into the following categories:
Algorithms assigned as homework problems. These will be tagged as ‘edu’. I welcome submissions via email. I will always follow these guidelines:
I will only post about problems accessible from the “general web”, by which I mean that Google can […]