I’m sure there are a lot of you out there who utterly get, in a second nature sort of way, how algorithms work. I, however, am not among them. I mean, I know that algorithms are ‘a way that computers ...

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Computer algorithms and code impact basic aspects of our lives. When the are used for a civic purpose that demands transparency, the underlying programs should be made public. Cartoon by Andy Singer.