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   Tom Walker (tomw@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 22:40:36 JST Tom Walker

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   If it's only the technically-correct definitions of words that matter then please let me offer you this fruit salad.

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     Tom Walker (tomw@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 22:40:37 JST Tom Walker

     I'm very bored of "don't be scared of algorithms, 1 + 1 is an algorithm" and similar. Some people really cling to this for some reason.

     The now-dominant use of 'algorithm' means "selection of posts on a social media network using an engagement-tracking process". If you insist that it always means something else then all you will do is misunderstand 99% of sentences that now include the word.

     ei_nagasawa repeated this.