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Algorithms

TagLast edit: 5 Dec 2020 12:31 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Posts that describe or demonstrate specific Algorithms that can be used to make decisions.

Example: Final Version Perfected: An Underused Execution Algorithm

See also: Decision Theory, Planning & Decision-Making,

Deep For­get­ting & Un­learn­ing for Safely-Scoped LLMs

scasper5 Dec 2023 16:48 UTC
127 points
30 comments13 min readLW link

How Fast Can Al­gorithms Ad­vance Ca­pa­bil­ities? | Epoch Gra­di­ent Update

henryj16 May 2025 21:38 UTC
37 points
10 comments6 min readLW link
(epoch.ai)

See­ing Through the Eyes of the Algorithm

silentbob22 Feb 2025 11:54 UTC
18 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

The lat­tice of par­tial updatelessness

Martín Soto10 Feb 2024 17:34 UTC
23 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Log­i­cal in­duc­tion for soft­ware engineers

Alex Flint3 Dec 2022 19:55 UTC
163 points
8 comments27 min readLW link1 review

Com­ple­tion Estimates

Commander Zander9 Mar 2024 22:56 UTC
7 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

The Old Sav­age in the New Civ­i­liza­tion V. 2

Your Higher Self6 Jul 2025 15:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments9 min readLW link

The Best Text­books on Every Subject

lukeprog16 Jan 2011 8:30 UTC
790 points
417 comments7 min readLW link

Al­gorithms to Live By: Ch3 Sorting

pepe_prime11 Feb 2020 14:36 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How Fast is Al­gorith­mic Progress in AI In­fer­ence?

13 Jul 2025 18:26 UTC
6 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

When Are Re­sults from Com­pu­ta­tional Com­plex­ity Not Too Coarse?

Dalcy3 Jul 2024 19:06 UTC
42 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ism be­fore the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC
597 points
83 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] How do top AI labs vet ar­chi­tec­ture/​al­gorithm changes?

Jemal Young8 May 2024 16:47 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­pret­ing a di­men­sion­al­ity re­duc­tion of a col­lec­tion of ma­tri­ces as two pos­i­tive semidefinite block di­ag­o­nal matrices

Joseph Van Name19 Aug 2023 19:52 UTC
16 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Logic vs in­tu­ition ⇔ al­gorithm vs ML

pchvykov4 Jan 2025 9:06 UTC
5 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

My Al­gorithm for Beat­ing Procrastination

lukeprog10 Feb 2012 2:48 UTC
148 points
138 comments7 min readLW link

Cy­berE­con­omy. The Limits to Growth

16 Feb 2025 21:02 UTC
−3 points
0 comments23 min readLW link

How are the cy­ber econ­omy and AI chang­ing the philos­o­phy of sci­ence? Pop­per, Kuhn, Fey­er­abend, and Lakatos in the age of digi­tal technology

Timur Sadekov26 Sep 2025 12:55 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readLW link

Re­vis­it­ing al­gorith­mic progress

13 Dec 2022 1:39 UTC
95 points
15 comments2 min readLW link1 review
(arxiv.org)

Ur­gent & im­por­tant: How (not) to do your to-do list

bfinn1 Feb 2019 17:44 UTC
51 points
20 comments13 min readLW link

Fi­nal Ver­sion Perfected: An Un­derused Ex­e­cu­tion Algorithm

willbradshaw27 Nov 2020 10:43 UTC
103 points
34 comments7 min readLW link
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