Your life is dominated by algorithms and you know next-to-nothing about how they work or what consequences they have. With Facebook's news feed controlling the (fake!) news we see and the ...

Addressing bias: The concept of a biased algorithm is now fairly well known – the concept of “bias in, bias out” or even “rubbish in, rubbish out”. Businesses must, however, move beyond a theoretical ...

Algorithms can simply be understood as a set of rules to solve a problem The term ‘algorithm’ is used extensively in the tech and startup world, so much so it may appear as a convenient must-use ...

Many efforts to apply machine learning get stuck due to concerns about the black box — that is, the lack of transparency around why a system does what it does. Sometimes this is because people ...

Last week at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) a new way of calculating Fast Fourier Transforms was presented by a group of MIT researchers. It ...

Why the algorithm approach beats the 4% rule at estimating your retirement income. Frederick Vettese. Includes correction. Special to The Globe and Mail. Published May 27, 2025Updated May 29, 2025.