Drawing Algorithms
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An algorithm, drawn by a 53-year-old female sociology professor at a small college in the US.

On this half, which is to draw an algorithm. Or actually draw, sorry, specifically draw how an algorithm works. Oh, my god. And I'll just leave this on. How does an algorithm work? It's like a really complicated flowchart, and I'm only going to use one part of it. Okay. [laughing] So, like, I do- We don't care about the artistic part. I do something, right. There's like an input which would be search for something or whatever, and then that shapes what I'm shown, and there's these other things that are not going to be affected. Result, not result. And then there's also prior information about me, which is also going to shape the result, and then this just keeps happening over and over, and the result gets refined as there are different kinds of input. Well, then the input becomes prior information over time. Right? Can you draw the, since we don't have a video of this- Can I draw- Can you draw the, I don't know, somehow the- Yeah, so like- Reinforcement? The result then reshapes the prior information, and the input over time also becomes prior information. The result shapes the prior information and the prior information shapes the result, and there's other information. Here, I'll make another. So, prior information about my searches. And then there's other information about me from whatever they've bought. We'll say that's purchased, shared, et cetera. Like that they've collected in other me, in other ways, and that's also shaping the result. Okay. Great. Okay.