"They put a box score and play-by-play into the program ... The company's algorithm would write stories on thousands of Big Ten sporting events in near-real time; its accounts of football games ...

Sell shares of the stock when its 50-day moving average goes below the 200-day moving average. Using these two simple instructions, a computer program ... important of all, imperfect algorithms.

From the get-go, we’ve designed algorithmic programming to elevate human curation, not to replace it. The Times began using algorithms ... considered more important. Another method infers a story’s ...

They started small, with algorithms that sorted only 3, 4, or 5 numbers at a time, but these are important ... intuition to narrow its search. At each step, the computer program feeds the game ...