Our Everyday life algorithms
Introduction
Algorithms describe our daily normal activities. The activities that we carry out following a guideline to achieve specified results form out our everyday algorithms. Each of these activities are carried out individually or consecutively with other but in sub-sections. These encounters apply to everyone’s life without exception with their knowledge or not. Personally, my daily experiences are true flow of algorithmic activities for instance, dressing up.
Dressing Algorithm
Designing the mode of dressing is always a complication whether anticipated, or planned a day prior to putting them on. My dressing follows up a set of algorithmic steps to achieve full dress-code. That is because dressing up entails various clothing items involving various sub-routines such as putting on to begin with. The putting on subroutine usually take in various inputs of cloth types. The various clothes in my closet present the variables available to put on. In my closet I have different types of clothes like jeans with different colors, different pants, shorts, t-shirts, shoes, socks, and sneakers all of different colors.
Most at times I have an idea of what to wear and preferably if do black jeans, white shirt, belt, black ankle socks and rubbers shoes. In that scenario dressing up turns out to be sequential, simple and fast. My challenge comes in the process of defining the algorithm to follow on putting on the various chosen clothes. However, in some cases, I want to put on simple clothes like trouser, vest and sandals, unfortunately one pair of trouser is dirty and I can’t trace the sandals therefore end up wearing sneakers. These scenes offer various selection of clothes depending on their cleanliness and availability.
Other scenarios happen conditionally whereby the dressing code is reliant on certain situation. For instance, the weather condition encourages different types of clothes from usual ones. Here, my algorithm on what to wear depends on external temperatures and choose clothes considering whether is cold or hot outside. Besides, taking off the clothes is also procedural as sometimes I try other outfits that I’m comfortable.
Social media algorithm
In my social media sites like Facebook, Instagram and twitter have posted substances like articles and images that some have caught little attention while some do great in certain scenarios. In that case, I thought that the relevance of algorithms is crucial for any post to go viral in the social media platform. That is mainly because the problem is usually failure to get the first impression of the post before uploading. The first scenario and subroutine in the platform is to establish connection with substantial number of friends who can engage with the posts and pass it on to other people.
In winning the likes, comments and retweet of people of interest, and whom probably are interested in your works begins through creation of links that interlock the people rather than creation of mere posts randomly. These links grow sequentially as the connection grows too. On my social media pages Instagram and twitter, hashtags have been my initial subroutine to create the links with people. I have tagged along friends along my various posts which has led to evolution of chats with the friends and resulted to one on one engagements with them. These step by step procedures of winning people to follow me have resulted to generation of stardom following throughout my social pages. However, these posts now vary depending on the information I want to communicate or luxury purposes.
Conclusion
Our daily lives follow a set of algorithmic steps with a start and an end with aim to achieve certain objectives, states Baskin 2017. In all these cases, we foster to optimize our efficiency on expenditure of time, money and energy. Algorithms has therefore, helped in making informed decisions in solving our daily problems.
References
Baskin K. (2017, May 8) How to use algorithms to solve everyday problems. Retrieved May 3, 2020, from https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/how-to-use-algorithms-to-solve-everyday-problems
Neyland D. (2018) Introduction: Everyday Life and the algorithm. Retrieved May 3, 2020, from https://link.springer.com/chapter