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Pedantic Mathematician here.
If it failed, then it was a heuristic, rather than an algorithm.
Clearly, that's the most important thing about this post.
You're welcome.
Pretty much anything trying to predict human behavior is a heuristic; people using them as if they've got some kind of certainty is a problem.
Yes, exactly.