What Are Algorithms and Flowcharts?. Algorithms and flowcharts are two tools a software developer uses when creating new programs. An algorithm is a step-by-step recipe for processing data; it ...

Twitter recommendation algorithm source code has been posted to GitHub Elon Musk has shared the algorithm that Twitter uses to recommend tweets.

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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.

The important insight is that for repetition codes, this results in what's called a planar graph, where edges don't cross each other.