{"id":30333,"date":"2022-04-12T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/roots-of-the-word-algorithm-go-back-to-the-ninth-century-in-modern-day-iran#id31632"},"modified":"2022-04-12T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T18:48:00","slug":"today-a-good-few-of-us-have-come-to-resent-algorithms-even-more-than-algebra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/today-a-good-few-of-us-have-come-to-resent-algorithms-even-more-than-algebra\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Today, a good few of us have come to resent algorithms even more than algebra.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"356\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oRkNaF0QvnI?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>News to us? The roots of the word &#8220;algorithm&#8221; go back to the ninth century in modern-day Iran. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2022\/04\/why-algorithms-are-called-algorithms.html\">Via Open Culture<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><em>In making or influencing choices humans would once have handled themselves, algorithms do present a risk of &ldquo;de-skilling&rdquo; as we come to rely on their services. We all occasionally feel gratitude for the blessings those services send our way, just as we all occasionally blame them for our dissatisfactions &mdash; making the algorithm, in other words, into a thoroughly modern deity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/roots-of-the-word-algorithm-go-back-to-the-ninth-century-in-modern-day-iran\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    News to us? The roots of the word &#8220;algorithm&#8221; go back to the ninth century in modern-day Iran. Via Open Culture: <\/p>\n<p>In making or influencing choices humans would once have handled themselves, algorithms do present a risk of &amp;l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30334,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30333\/revisions\/30334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}