TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

Post by bobthepanda » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 3:48 AM UTC

ogwh wrote: post #45

htrp wrote: post #26

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I always wonder what Bytedance is doing differently compared with other social recommendation tools (aka why does no one rave about Twitter's suggested follows). My sneaking suspicion is product management designed a product that is literally perfect for a recommendation engine.

Other platforms only look for similar content to what you've already seen. They don't take novelty into account. If you like one picture of a dog on Instagram it'll just show you more dogs and you get bored. Watch a few YouTube videos about one topic and the algorithm gets fixated on it. YouTube is so bad now that if you use it to listen to music the autoplay gets into an infinite loop of songs that sound near identi…

Post by yesenadam » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 3:49 AM UTC

doitLP wrote: post #27

johndfsgdgdfg wrote: post #11

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@dang this looks like a throwaway account pushing a particular angle. Most comments are downvoted and carrying a pro CCP, anti Google, pro Microsoft slant.

Post by xnx » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 3:53 AM UTC

htrp wrote: post #26

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I agree with this. Their ranker is really good and has improved dramatically the more I watch and like. And it's not even fully garbage content, a good amount of it is interesting, useful, inspirational and educational. A rabbit hole of really excellent videos from a professional dog trainer caused me a detour of 20 minutes and pushed me over the edge to create the original tweet. So one side of me is not even mad, b…

I always wonder what Bytedance is doing differently compared with other social recommendation tools (aka why does no one rave about Twitter's suggested follows). My sneaking suspicion is product management designed a product that is literally perfect for a recommendation engine.

Post by WheelsAtLarge » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 3:55 AM UTC

adfgadfgaery wrote: post #32

WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #6

Wow, this is saying something since it's coming from(the),"Director of AI at Tesla, leading the Autopilot Vision team. Previously OpenAI, CS231n, PhD @ Stanford. I like to train large deep neural nets " (his Twitter description)

AI at Tesla is a scam, so it probably doesn't say what you think it says. It's a shame that Karpathy actually seems to know what he's talking about. Maybe he originally bought in to the Tesla vision and doesn't have the integrity to admit it's failed. Maybe he's like von Braun, doing great evil because he wants funding. Either way we lost a seemingly talented researcher.

Post by gutitout » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 4:03 AM UTC

cmckn wrote: post #64

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I always wonder what Bytedance is doing differently compared with other social recommendation tools (aka why does no one rave about Twitter's suggested follows). My sneaking suspicion is product management designed a product that is literally perfect for a recommendation engine.

I interviewed with them last year, and literally everyone I spoke to was brilliant. I think a lot of their magic is in hiring great people and having a very flat org chart. They get out of people’s way, and let them do cool shit.