Drawing Algorithms
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An algorithm, drawn by a 26-year-old female student in biology on Master level in Switzerland.

Can you explain to me what you have drawn now? Yeah. Just a box that... Where one leads into the other and then some action is taken. Mm. You've drawn four boxes here. Yeah. If something happens, that happens. When something else happens, something happens this or that. What do you mean, "when something happens, this happens"? So what does the box that goes from the bottom to the bottom and back again from the bottom to the top describe? You put something in and then depending on what you did, this happens and what you do next can happen this or that... And then you go back to the first box? Yeah, or somewhere else. That's my idea of algorithm. That's my idea of algorithm. And how did you learn about the algorithm? At school. At school, how it works? Yes Okay. And have you heard about the algorithm lately? Yeah, because. I mean, every time I read, news and stuff. Anyway, I was taking computer science classes last year, and I was... And in terms of news, what did you read? Yeah, just about the whole privacy thing and how the algorithms of social media actually work and all these terms of use. It always becomes [incomprehensible]. You have just drawn boxes like that right now. Yes, it can be anything. Well, that's it. Thanks a lot.