algorithm
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Clearly, the algorithm masters aren’t too precious about these throwaway texts; their core strategy will always be to embrace whatever seems to work best in the moment.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
Meta dodged the “worst-case whispers” of much steeper financial penalties and algorithm changes, he added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Instead, when I didn’t complete the tutorial, the algorithm canceled my classes.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
This vaccine is different: A surgeon removes the tumor and sends it to a lab, where its mutations are sequenced and an algorithm identifies the targets for a personalized mRNA vaccine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 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
It remains to be seen how trading algorithms deal with a weather phenomenon that the climate scientist S. George Philander described in his 2004 book on the subject as “frustratingly whimsical.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
He had planned to study mechanical engineering, but quickly realized that algorithms, not the hardware, decide how robots behave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Some experts mentioned other technological solutions to help with public health: namely, the tweaking of algorithms to make it so the most inflammatory accounts aren’t always rewarded.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Pollard told BBC Breakfast on Monday: "Social media companies could take that down today, adjust their algorithms so it's not celebrated."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Nevertheless, I’ve been running algorithms on the possible future of the Scythedom, and found something very curious.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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