Elon Musk’s ‘Algorithm,’ a 5-Step Process to Dramatically Improve Nearly Anything, Is Both Simple and Brilliant. Just make sure you follow the steps in order.

“It’s a five-step process for improving the design, making it ultimately easier to manufacture and finding ways to optimize along the way as well.” Step 1 is: “Challenge the requirements ...

In 1969, a German mathematician named Volker Strassen discovered the previous-best algorithm for multiplying 4×4 matrices, which reduces the number of steps necessary to perform a matrix calculation.