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talking machines had an episode on the difference between algorithms and models, and how the general public understands the meaning of the word "algorithm". In general these are conflated terms which is hard to be absolutist about, at the very least

The general public (& journalists) use the word 'algorithm' to mean any computerized process that "does things to them", such your facebook news feed, or what a credit agency does.

This is a different meaning from how social scientists use these words.

http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/2017/9/22/the-long-vi...

In the episode, he talks about how even something like Principal Components Analysis (PCA), which is something that normally we would call an algorithm, which follows a discrete sequence of steps, can also be thought of as resting on something that resembles a model