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A fascinating guided tour of the complicated, fast-moving, and important world of algorithms - what they are, why they're such powerful predictors of individuals tendencies, and where they're headed next. Algorithms exert a fantastic level of influence on our daily lives - from seeing websites and financial trading surfaces, to online retailing and internet searches - Google's search algorithm is currently a more tightly guarded commercial top secret than the menu for Coca-Cola. Algorithms follow a series of instructions to solve a problem and can include a strategy to produce the best outcome possible from your options and permutations available. Used by scientists for quite some time and applied in an exceedingly specialised way, they are actually increasingly hired to process the vast levels of data being produced, in investment bankers, in the movie industry where they are used to predict success or inability at the field office, and by sociable scientists and plan makers. Imagine if everything in life could be reduced to a straightforward formula? Imagine if numbers were able to reveal which associates we were best matched with - not just in terms of attractiveness, but for a long-term determined marriage? Or if they could say which videos would be the largest strikes at the field office, and what changes could be made to those videos to make them even more lucrative? Or even who is more likely to commit certain crimes, and when? This might sound like the world of science fiction, however in fact it is merely the end of the iceberg in a global that is increasingly ruled by complicated algorithms and neural sites. In The Solution, Luke Dormehl takes listeners inside the world of figures, asking how we came to trust in the all-conquering power of algorithms; adding the mathematicians, man-made cleverness experts and Silicon Valley business owners who are shaping this daring new world, and ultimately requesting how we make it through in an era where numbers will often seem to create as many problems as they solve.
