{"id":4131,"date":"2014-07-28T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:38:13","slug":"the-real-10-algorithms-that-dominate-our-world-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/07\/28\/the-real-10-algorithms-that-dominate-our-world-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world \u2014 Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@_marcos_otero\/the-real-10-algorithms-that-dominate-our-world-e95fa9f16c04\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4138\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/HACKR010-300x246.png\" alt=\"HACKR010\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/HACKR010-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/HACKR010.png 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world \u2014 Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long thought that every discipline is its own culture. Each has a particular language, ways of working, humour, and generally looking at the world. For a computer scientist, <em>everything<\/em> is an algorithm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to a musician, everything is a song.<\/li>\n<li>to a writer, everything is a story.<\/li>\n<li>to thespians, everything is a play.<\/li>\n<li>to a film-maker, everything is a movie.<\/li>\n<li>to a set designer, everything is a set.<\/li>\n<li>to an educator, everything is a lesson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure we could fill in a lot more&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4131'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4131);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4131);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4131);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world \u2014 Medium. I&#8217;ve long thought that every discipline is its own culture. Each has a particular language, ways of working, humour, and generally looking at the world. For a computer scientist, everything &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/07\/28\/the-real-10-algorithms-that-dominate-our-world-medium\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[353,14,81,24],"tags":[388,6,47,393],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-2","category-general","category-information-technology","category-teaching-learning","tag-academia","tag-computer-science","tag-programming","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-14D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7086,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/10\/21\/its-all-a-matter-of-point-of-view-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4131,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s all a matter of point of view&#8230; (the 2018 version)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I first posted this note back in 2009. 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It has included some great discussions about all kinds of things. Erin Lerouge (one of the class members) wrote a few comments on Seymore Paperts classic article, \"Papert, S. (1998). Does Easy Do It? Children, Games, and Learning.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3090,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/10\/31\/should-game-designers-learn-how-to-program\/","url_meta":{"origin":4131,"position":2},"title":"Should Game Designers Learn How to Program?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 31, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"These are public postings of my writings for the first course of the Graduate Certificate Program in Serious Game Design and Research at Michigan State University. 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Instead of educating children about the most revolutionary technology of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4720,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/04\/06\/game-based-learning-vs-game-pedagogy\/","url_meta":{"origin":4131,"position":4},"title":"Game-Based Learning vs Game Pedagogy","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"April 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Putting\u00a0everything that has to with learning and games under one name obscures the complexity of the field. We should use TWO terms: Game-Based Learning for the learner's perspective, and Game Pedagogy for the teacher's perspective. bookblog:game-based_learning_vs_game_pedagogy [Magic Bullet Games].","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Book","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/book\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6265,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2016\/07\/18\/worth-sharing-teaching-by-numbers-learning-reimagined-medium\/","url_meta":{"origin":4131,"position":5},"title":"Worth Sharing: Teaching by Numbers \u2014 Learning {Re}imagined \u2014 Medium","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A curious thing has been happening in UK education and it\u2019s a trend that\u2019s occurring globally as the craft of teaching is being transformed into a \u201cscience\u201d. The Economist recently published an article titled \u201cHow to make a good teacher\u201d that proclaimed: \u201cThe premise that teaching ability is something you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}