Algorithmia, a marketplace for building algorithms and monetizing them as APIs, has added support for four widely used languages: JavaScript, Python 3, Rust, and Ruby.

In its early years, Facebook’s algorithm prioritized signals such as likes, clicks and comments to decide which posts to amplify. Publishers, brands and individual users soon learned how to ...

In other domains, what’s described above as a model is itself called an algorithm. Though that’s confusing, under the broadest definition it is also accurate: models are rules (learned by the ...