How did we get here? The story of algorithms.
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8 min readOct 10, 2019
Until recently, algorithms were a domain of computer scientists. But now, they have entered our lives and are becoming pervasive. Algorithm is not a foreign word anymore. Algorithmic trading, algorithmic bias, the Facebook algorithm, even algorithmic warfare — all these terms have become part of our vocabulary in recent years. Some people go as far as claiming that we live in a new age: the age of the…
