Zillow, for instance, has been using its trademarked, machine-learning assisted “Zestimate” to estimate the value ... social network. There have been life-changing consequences of algorithms ...

Zillow previously determined the value of homes using nearly 1,000 variations of algorithms derived for local markets. Now all prices nationwide will be decided by a single neural network.

But the most intriguing parts of bitcoin — and all its cousin currencies like litecoin, peercoin, and even dogecoin — are the core mathematical algorithms ... The value of this is, that ...