I versus Algorithms 2 – Who moved my home page?
I woke up interrupted on a Saturday morning with my wife furious at our sons. “You are not getting my phone, again.” Both the sons claimed innocence while shifting blame at each other; in the crossfire my desire to get additional sleep got a quiet burial. My wife was looking for some breakfast ideas on Youtube and found her home page filled with Cartoon videos playlist, as long as she could scroll down. “This isn’t how it was a month back; I had my cookery, comedy and news playlist. I gave the phone to them for cartoon drawing tutorials, and here is what I get.” Greater surprise awaited my wife, when she moved to check her Google Updates list and that also had majority items on new releases from the cartoon studios to fun facts, fan sites et al. “Blame it on algorithms, not them” I tried to reason with a smile. The cat and mouse game of algorithms Let’s look at the world of algorithms with a rather simple abstraction – the cat and mouse. ...