Drawing Algorithms
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An algorithm, drawn by a 23-year-old male graduate student in mathematics in the US.

And then just one other drawing request which is if you could draw how an algorithm works? An algorithm? Yeah, I'll leave the phone if you want to narrate what you're drawing. I don't know. Should I pick like a specific example? Do I? It's totally up to you. Okay. Let's see. I guess it's like. Sort of like a sequence of steps. Maybe it's sort of like a recipe. So, I'll draw like kitchen recipe. Yeah, I don't know. Some ingredients. I guess it should maybe be more context dependent maybe? Maybe a kitchen recipe is too too broad. It's too what? Like, it's too broad. In the sense of being like exactly the same thing each time. As opposed to adapted to input specifically. Ah, okay. I don't know. Maybe you don't have one type of butter so you use something else. I'll just draw some flour. Yeah, I don't know. This is more - I might have chosen to do something different if I had thought about this for a little longer but...Like something like a sorting algorithm or something would be hard to draw, I guess. It's like a better analogy maybe. Let's see. So, can you just say how this encompasses an algorithm for you? Yeah, so I guess. I guess an algorithm is like a sequence of steps based on some input that gives some output and I guess it should probably be the same each time..? Maybe there's some randomness factors but. So, the kitchen recipe is sort of like an algorithm in the sense that. Yeah, you have some inputs. You know, you follow these directions and you get like a cake at the end or something, an output. Okay. Cool. Where have you heard the term algorithm before? So, I was a CS major in undergrad. So and I don't know I mean, I took like an algorithms class for instance. So I heard it there.