Drawing Algorithms
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An algorithm, drawn by a 31-year-old male graduate student of communications in the US.

So on the other half of the sheet, can you please draw how an algorithm works. And I'll leave this on so you can narrate your drawing. Okay. So here's me, and here's my devices. I've got a laptop and a phone, and these are collecting data about me, so I'm drawing lines toward me. I'm also holding my phone and I'm... So there's data being processed through the machines. Then the algorithm is going to be these lines that are then coming from those inputs. Let's say the phone and the computer, and the algorithm is this sort of like floating brain looking thing, and it's doing all sorts of operations, which are just squiggly lines. And then it's going to deliver those things back in a different looking line, slightly maybe more orderly, back into my devices. And then those things go back into me. So this exchange from me giving it data to the devices, to it being processed in some sort of floating brain cloud thing, and then delivering, in slightly more orderly lines, this back to my devices, and then to me. And then there's probably some programmers over here, and they're sending instructions to the floating cloud brain thingy. But there's also a kind of hazy curtain here, where they're not sure what's happening once it passes through the curtain. It's kind of in-between two curtains, let's say, doing its own thing. Okay, great. Thank you. So where have you heard the term algorithm before? In the course of research, in the field I do research. And then news, increasingly, past few years. News articles. Yeah. Okay.