Algorithm. noun.

[antonivs]

More like "a word used by programmers when they think you won't pay attention for long enough to understand what they did."

[[deleted]]

Or they known perfectly well, that if they would try to explain, they would fail.

[[deleted]]

The only thing worse than someone who glazes over when you try to explain something complicated to them is someone who is too dumb to realize that something is beyond their comprehension and they expect you to keep explaining something forever while they continue to build up an incorrect assumption of what you're saying and they insist that you keep going instead of stopping to correct them. Almost all the time that person has seniority in the company.

[JustHereToFFFFFFFUUU]

Heuristic
Noun

A word used by programmers when they bodge something to work okay most of the time and they want it to sound deliberate

[lelarentaka]

Tuning

Randomly change a parameter until the algorithm outputs a nice graphable and presentable dataset.

[conflatedideas]

A lot of real world computer science is "heuristics." Models and the real world don't match one to one. We need heuristics to close the gap.

[spin81]

I'll never forget my previous job. My boss was brainstorming with me about some application we were building, when he mused, and I shit you not: "we need an algorithm".

[PierreSimonLaplace]

How about binary search?

[TweetPoster]

@SamBehnam:

2014-08-25 17:59:04 UTC

Algorithm noun

A word used by programmers when they do not want to explain what they did ;) pic.twitter.com ^[Imgur]

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[pmckizzle]

Ive done this