Friday, January 18, 2019

Algorithm is an Arabic Word

Actually it's the latinising of the name of a Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi.  So the very thing that, on YouTube, enables and promotes loads of far-right Islamophobes and Western chauvinists, originates literally with a Muslim intellectual from the East.

But we stray from the point of this little extra post, which is to give you a glimpse of the dank horrors that the dreaded algorithm has wrought on Daniel's YouTube recommendations as a result of his extensive researches.









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