A Walk Through Algorithm History From Humble Beginnings:The story of Google’s algorithms starts not with complex code, but with a simple principle:serving users the most relevant information. From its early days, Google’s ranking system has evolved dramatically, driven by the constant pursuit of...
You’d expect that after lots of iterations that the algorithm would reach a “steady state” where the PageRank of all the pages in the indexed converged. Once that happens, the algorithm terminates. Here’s the answer in that language of love, mathematics:How does PageRank avoid an ...
algorithm catalog: this is the real reason you buy this book. about to get to this part. Will update here once I've made my way through it. To quote Yegge: "More than any other book it helped me understand just how astonishingly commonplace (and important) graph problems are – they...
Magic Cat Academyis super-simple, as you stand in the middle of various levels drawing lines that correspond to the symbols above ghosts’ heads to banish them. While it might sound simple, the symbols will get increasingly complex as you advance in the game. The action picks up very quickl...
algorithm catalog: this is the real reason you buy this book. about to get to this part. Will update here once I've made my way through it. To quote Yegge: "More than any other book it helped me understand just how astonishingly commonplace (and important) graph problems are – they...
for encryption because quantum is expected one day to break the codes that lock everything from national secrets to credit cards. This past December IBM unveiled its Quantum System Two with three times the qubits as the machine you saw in cleveland. Last year we saw System Two under ...
Themagic’s in the algorithms#mobilemagic If I had to tell you in a couple of words the concept behind Google Pixel great camera, it wouldn’t be easy. Ignoring all the nuances, I’d have to say “multiple frame acquisition“. See, Google Pixel isn’t about stacking lenses or even in...
algorithmic atomicity–you are performing some action, say transforming an image and at a certain step, you need the data from the image’s color table. So you wait to get a message from another thread when that data is available. And then continue processing locally in your own algorithm....
While Google used to share major update announcements, no one truly knows the exact inner workings of its algorithm. Most of the information online is just speculation from industry professionals, and Google won’t give up its secrets anytime soon. After all, if everyone knew exactly how to ...
and frighteningly powerful companies. its constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information. its equally complex ad-auction platform is a perpetual money-minting machine. but other, less well-known engineering and strategic breakthroughs are arguably just...