RE: Is Technofeudalism the fuel behind the growth in crypto adoption by milennials? (This is to address a blog article from Umair Haque.)
If a program has a finite (limited) amount of possible states, and at the beginning of a program is an initial state (state 0), and you take input from a user, the algorithm is the part of the program which takes that input, does something useful with it, and outputs something relevant to what the user requested.
A simple sorting algorithm could be built up of an input prompt where the user can upload unstructured information and issue a command such as sort by date, the input then goes to the algorithm which is built up of some functions, loops, etc, but at the end the final output is the input information given to it by the user sorted by date as requested by the user. A simple way to think of algorithms is like recipes for dealing with information which are just automated calculations in some cases, such as you see in the step by step process in mathematics to find the answer to a problem.
ooooohk now i get, its all talking about the start and end of something, the work and labour behinds it and the process taken, i think this defines it
That is talking about microwork, where jobs are broken into small tasks, or similar to remote work like what you see on Steem. Technically Steem is microwork where we curate and generate content. The algorithms are in the code which gives us incentives to do that.
thanks for breaking it down, learned new things err day. i totally understand now, i have done some task then on microworkers.com ,true though curating and generating aligned with the algorithms