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Social Media Algorithms Know You Better Than Your Mother

· news-and-views

How recommendation systems learn what keeps you scrolling, why "engagement" isn't the same as "good for you," and small ways to take some control back.

Recursion, or Mirrors Inside Mirrors

· coding

A function that calls itself sounds like a paradox. It's actually just a careful way of saying "do the same thing on a smaller problem, and know when to stop."

Big-O Notation at the Grocery Store

· coding

O(1), O(log n), O(n) and O(n²), explained with shopping trips, queues and one very inefficient way to find the eggs.