{"id":52694,"date":"2020-09-07T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T12:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=52694"},"modified":"2020-09-07T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T12:36:15","slug":"what-do-algorithms-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/09\/07\/what-do-algorithms-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What do algorithms do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Videos are back, after a couple of days of production bugs. This one is on algorithms. You know, the things that deliver entirely reliable forecasts of human behaviour. Or, maybe not.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Algorithms!! What do they mean in today&#039;s world?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4T-rUtU5CuQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videos are back, after a couple of days of production bugs. This one is on algorithms. You know, the things that deliver entirely reliable forecasts<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/09\/07\/what-do-algorithms-do\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}