Elon Musk recently disclosed the algorithm for the recommendation system of his social media platform X (formerly Twitter), an intelligent filtering system that determines which posts and ads appear ...

This camper was able to pass the tests but their algorithm didn't perform a swap of the smallest element and the first unsorted element. def selection_sort(items ...

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Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel Center for Physics and Chemistry of Living Systems, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, ...

We then select the next smallest element in the array, which is 3. 3 is already in the correct position, so we don't need to swap it. We then select the next smallest element in the array, which is 4.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...