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When your sort algorithm does more harm than good.   --- I've noticed an annoying trend lately from some of the designer fashion brands and major retailers.  No Sorting by price is allowed! A Sorting Algorithm is used to rearrange a given array or list of elements according to a comparison operator on the elements. The comparison operator is used to decide the new order of elements in the respective data structure. Sorting allows users to rearrange products so that those of most interest are at the top of product list.  Allowing users to sort by “Price”, “User Rating”, “Best-Selling”, and “Newest”. If I want to sort by price, why would a company purposely prevent me, the consumer, from browsing the goods in the order that I choose? And using a range sort is a lazy rationalization.  As a consumer, I will immediately exit a website if I cannot sort by price.    Tom Brokaw used to have an  occasional feature on NBC Nightly News called “ The Fleecing...

Innovation is here - exciting time to be involved!  I attended a session @MicrosoftIgnite that showcased Content Intelligence - an automated Invoice-to-pay process using AI classification models and retraining based on feedback.  This invoice model was trained using thousands of samples to achieve a 70% efficiency without training. There was a detailed explanation of how failures are handled. One impressive aspect was the automatic rescan email request for failed documents.  #MSIgnite  #AI   More examples of machine learning: Automating tax documents processing with Azure Form Recognizer https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-applied-ai-blog/automating-tax-documents-processing-with-azure-form-recognizer/ba-p/3650168