that’s the actual architecture of the algorithm). Having access to the source code or the design of the algorithm provides a whole new level of insight. That’s clear from The Marshall Project’s ...

As an important new field of influence, algorithms are ripe for journalistic investigation. But investigating computer code can come across as dry and technical. Researchers often talk about “auditing ...

Sooner or later, every programmer ends up searching for code snippets and algorithms ... C#, Python, PHP, and Java. HackerRank co-founder Vivek Ravisankar tells me the project currently features ...

Twitter announced on Friday that it's open-sourcing the code behind the recommendation algorithm the platform uses to select the contents of the users' For You timeline. However, the code made ...

What happens once the source code used to recommend tweets is shared and the Twitter algorithm is further illuminated remains to be seen. Either way, we look forward to finding out come March 31.

In AlphaDev’s case, the game involves choosing computer instructions and placing them in order so that the resulting lines of code make up an algorithm. AlphaDev wins the game if the algorithm ...