In his book The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos offers a masterfully simple definition: “An algorithm is,” Domingos writes, “a sequence of instructions telling a computer what to do.” ...

An algorithm makes it possible to measure the ... "Our software can build a 3D map of a simple, convex room with a precision of a few millimeters," explains PhD student Ivan Dokmanić.

Elon Musk calls it “the algorithm,” a distillation of lessons ... the more units we produced per day. In simple terms, the two major ways to increase productivity are to speed up the rate ...