The Yoda of Silicon Valley Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html
The Man, the Myth, the Legend: Don Knuth.

A Tour of The Top 10 Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies

https://blog.makcorps.com/2018/09/a-tour-of-top-10-algorithms-for-machine.html
I swear, it looks like a mommy-blogger post!

We Need Transparency in Algorithms, But Too Much Can Backfire

https://hbr.org/2018/07/we-need-transparency-in-algorithms-but-too-much-can-backfire
Strange paradox: People like transparency in algorithms, but not too much. 

The 5 Clustering Algorithms Data Scientists Need to Know

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-5-clustering-algorithms-data-scientists-need-to-know-a36d136ef68
Data clustering algorithms. I used k-means about 3 decades ago. 

A Flash of Insights on Lightning Network

https://medium.com/@menirosenfeld/a-flash-of-insights-on-lightning-network-338aea52e2bc
Can things like the Lightening Network save cryptocurrencies?

An Overview of Cryptocurrency Consensus Algorithms

https://hackernoon.com/an-overview-of-cryptocurrency-consensus-algorithms-9d744289378f
All in favor, say 'aye', all opposed? Crypto consensus algorithms. 

Sorting Visualizations

https://imgur.com/gallery/RM3wl
Unusual sorting algorithm visualization using color spectrum pixels. The usual suspects for algorithms.

MIT team whips up new city school bus routes

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/herald_bulldog/2017/07/mit_team_whips_up_new_city_school_bus_routes
The traveling salesman problem becomes the traveling schoolbus problem.

Visualizing Algorithms

https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/
Several cool visualizations of different algorithms applied to the same problem.

Computing optimal road trips on a limited budget

http://www.randalolson.com/2016/06/05/computing-optimal-road-trips-on-a-limited-budget/

Exceptionally cool example of using Pareto #geneticalgorithm to compute a road trip to 48 state capitols.