FILTERWORLD: How Algorithms Flattened Culture | By Kyle Chayka | Doubleday | 304 pp. | $28 Alexandra Jacobs is a book critic and the author of “Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of ...

So, reverse engineering, while it is miles ahead of what many journalists do when it comes to reporting on algorithms, is up against some significant challenges. At NICAR, Pasquale brought up another ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss. The ...

This algorithm had two properties: It was “deterministic,” meaning that its decisions did not depend on any randomness, and it was also “smooth,” meaning that the books must be spread ...