August 27 Algorithms

          I personally think that the idea of the world turning into a place run by math, by computers constantly running algorithms to potentially control and increase the efficiency of everything in our lives is kind of scary. But at the same time I think it is also really cool that someone with and idea can sit down and write code which can run part of the world. Another thing to consider about these algorithms is that if they are going to increase in number which they will, then everyone who has no idea of what algorithms are or without any sort of coding knowledge will be stuck in a world where they walk around blindly at the will of computers and under the influence of programmers. This leads into an interesting idea of if everything is starting to be taken over by mathematicians and programmers then what will many college graduates be able to do when their work becomes dominated by the computer and algorithms. One final thing that I took from the TED talk was that I had no idea what those graphs of algorithms are and or what they were doing. The video made me realize how import algorithms are and how I need to learn more about them which it looks like we will be accomplishing in this class.