At The Guardian, Cathy O'Neil writes about why algorithms can be wrong. She classifies the reasons into four categories on a spectrum ranging from unintential errors to outright malfeasance. As algorithms now make a large portion of the decisions affecting our lives, scrutiny is ever more important and she provides multiple examples in each category of their impact.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:46AM (1 child)
I felt the the way you did, until I learned about "test driven development".
Rules:
The above algorithm, if followed religiously, results in full test coverage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @10:02AM
You are aware that full test coverage for
would, on a 32 bit architecture, consist of 264 test cases?