Algorithms my arse

There's a lot of hype in the world at the moment about how algorithms are taking over the world. There's a lot of hype in the world at the moment about how machine learning is taking over the world. "Machine learning" is one of those things that is terribly complicated to the extent that most people don't really understand it. I've been reading a book recently, The Master Algorithm, which seems to make a pretty good stab at explaining both Algorithms and Machine Learning. I've no doubt that machine learning and algorithms will continue to change the world around us.