Twenty Questions is Too Many That’s why binary search is one of my favorite things. It’s a tool-slash-algorithm that I use multiple times per day, and it’s what underlies ADCs.

You might not think that it would be possible to have a favorite optimization algorithm, but I do. And if you’re well-versed in the mathematical art of hill climbing, you might ...

As industry experts continue to pore through this massive document, we may soon find out some more interesting details hidden in Google's search algorithm. A Google representative declined ...

This is a very powerful asymmetry: Anyone can notice a change in search results, but it’s extremely difficult to prove what caused it. That gives algorithm designers immense deniability.