Drawing Algorithms
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An algorithm, drawn by a 55-year-old male caterer in the US.

That's great. So the next one is can you please draw how an algorithm works. So okay ... And you can annotate it. I still have the recorder on so you can say stuff about what you're doing. So I'm making a little porthole where I say "Hi, Siri." And Siri says, "Hi, [R's name]." And so this is Siri and this is me. And [longer pause] if I go on here and I search for recipes, on the other side the next time I go on here this side will give me recipes that they think I might like. So that makes me happy. Okay. Drunk. [both laugh] Happy drunk. Right. So I'm happy that I don't have to totally search for that recipe. It's there in my history or something. So it knows what I'm thinking. But I want to know what it's thinking, it's not really thinking. All it's doing is knowing what I do on a repeat basis. Like I look for concert videos, it's going to show me concert videos. Some of them I'll like, some of them I won't. I search for recipes, it's going to show me recipes. And I think that's how it works. I feel like the algorithm found the BRBO that [wife's name] and I stayed in when we were in Paris. Because I was planning a trip to Paris, Google knew that, it was in my Gmail thing, so all of a sudden on the side, all these things, and I never thought to stay in a BRBO in Paris, and it was probably the best decision. Because we had a washer and dryer, it was ... Have you ever been to Paris? Yeah. Most of the apartments are like ... And hotels are like tiny little shoe boxes. This was like a decent space and it was in a good neighborhood. It was in a neighborhood that was like ... So then the guy who rented us, he was so cool and we saw him later and he told us to go to that museum where there's the restaurant on top and you can kind of see out, I forget what it's called. But we went there and so that helped. That helped me figure it out. So that's what I think it is. I don't know it it's what it is. You've heard the term algorithm before? Yeah. And so in what context do you think you've heard it? In the context of computers and like ... I mean [wife's name] says it probably more than I do, but it's oh you watch Jeopardy every day and it knows that so it's going to show you things about Alex Trebek and Jeopardy and news on Jeopardy. So it knows that at 8:00 I always get up and search for things, see what's up with the news on CNN or Huffington Post or some other liberal slanted biased ... Okay