Quotes About Algorithm

Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do.

If I was the perfect Netflix, what type of movies would I recommend for you and why?" "How do you feel you are different from the people at your current company?" "What views do you hold religiously, almost irrationally?" "How did you prepare for this interview?" "What subreddits, blogs, or online communities do you enjoy?" "What is something esoteric you do?

If I outline Prince Charming, I could end up with someone with no chemistry. I don't believe in trying to calculate one type of chemistry via algorithm, but I do think you need to do as much as you possibly can.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.

We should have equivalent due-process protections for algorithmic decisions as for human decisions.

The universe is computing its own destiny.

The pattern match begins with a search for a substring of a given string that has a specified structure in the string manipulation language

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Todos los detalles de cualquier percepto, todas las formas geométricas, los colores, los cambios de perspectiva y las texturas se encuentran algorítmicamente concentradas en cada punto de la Lattice. Pero en su decodificación añadimos nuestra propia estructura y organización cerebral y de la interacción entre esta y las características de la Lattice, surgen las cualidades (luz, sonido, textura, etc.) que nos son familiares.

Clark, that was the idea: small, independent routing computers.

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Since he'd based it on an earlier, experimental language by Thompson, code-named "B," Ritchie code-named his language "C.

The first algorithm to win its creators a Nobel Prize—originally formulated by two mathematicians, David Gale and Lloyd Shapley, in 1962

for calls iter, which calls __iter__

that's why we need recursion here: the number of nested loops is arbitrary, and depends on the length of the sequence permuted:

Consciousness is a computational goal state

You can't hide secrets from the future with math.

[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.

Repetition is the root of all software evil

Tlie algorithm, the project of a universal language, is a revolt against language in its existing state and a refusal to depend upon the confusions of everyday language.

The psychoanalysis of objective knowledge is interminable, or rather...like every psychoanalysis, it is destined not to suppress the past, the phantasms, but to transform them from powers of death into poetic productivity, and...the very idea of objective knowledge and the idea of algorithm as a spiritual automaton and finally the idea of an object that informs itself and knows itself are, as much as any other ideas, and more than any other, supported by our reveries.

Turing's first goal was to make very concrete this notion of definite procedure. The idea is that, given a particular problem to solve, you can construct a definite procedure for solving it by designing a Turing machine that solves it. Turing machines were put forth as the definition of "definite procedure," hitherto a vague and ill-defined notion.