Stop saying there are no algorithms. Algorithms don't necessarily involve opaque machine learning-driven decisions. Showing posts in chronological order is an algorithm. Showing a partial ordering of posts coming in from other nodes in a federated distributed system is an algorithm. Anything involving computers uses algorithms.

Even if you can predict what it does, there's an algorithm. ESPECIALLY if you can predict what it does.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

Next: Crypto means cryptography, damn it.
@mattblaze Well, yeah. (Thanks, @amiest !)

@SteveBellovin @amiest

What kind of weirdo has a shirt like that?

@amiest @mattblaze @SteveBellovin I’ve got a green one and enjoyed wearing it until randos started asking about ICOs. Maybe time to pull it out of storage.