Algorithms and flowcharts are two tools a software developer uses when creating ... For example, an algorithm designed to take two numbers from a user and add them together can be visually ...

For example, it makes sense to define printing as the step for the array-printing algorithm, because printing dominates the runtime and depends on the input size (number of array elements to print).

To clear things up, I drew you this flowchart on the back of an envelope so you can work out whether something is using AI or not. This originally appeared in our AI newsletter The Algorithm.

In an article on Domingos’ Master Algorithm, Slate’s David Auerbach notes that “even within computer science, machine learning is notably opaque.” But it’s also increasingly central to ...