THINKING PRINCIPLES ALGORITHMS

With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health…

— Cathy O'Neil

“He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they’re nothing but advanced math, they always reflect the values of their creators:”

— Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time…

— Tim Wu

The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that…

— Jack Edmonds

No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this…

— Andrew Ng

“Data Scientists should recall innovation often times is not providing fancy algorithms, but rather value to the customer.”

— Damian Mingle

I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified…

— Cathy O'Neil

Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object… this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change…

— Alexander Stepanov

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

— Donald Knuth

I like to think our brains are a bit like algorithms. Whatever you give it and feed it, you get out the product.

— Declan McKenna

Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.

— Andreas Antonopoulos

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

— Philip Emeagwali

“We will start by sketching the recursive algorithm and then add details to get to a full description of the algorithm. Footnote : Translation:…

— Sariel Har-Peled

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations…

— John von Neumann