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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] traches 46 points 1 month ago (9 children)

They don’t have to, algorithms do whatever they are designed to do. Long division is an algorithm.

Profit motives are the issue here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Yeah, the narrowing of the word "algorithm" to only mean "social media recommendation algorithms" is getting on my nerves.

[–] traches 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It’s the only time normies encounter the word.

How do you feel about crypto?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Cryptography is pretty useful

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At this point, "crypto" is its own word short for "cryptocurrency", and not for "cryptography" in the broader sense. It's unfortunate, but that's how people use it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

That isn't even generally true. Try mentioning crypto on the LKML and see what they think you mean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Scam from start to finish

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I don't think Superman needs a dog.

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