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Twitter Locks Down Product Changes After Agreeing to Musk Bid - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-locks-down-product-ch...
Are there precedents of this? This looks like there is not much trust internally. I doubt this was the first Elon’s decision
So nobody is being shadowbanned or suppressed?
I know the algorithm i use, it ends with ORDER BY date DESC.
I don't understand the concept of open-sourcing "the algorithm". First of all, "the algorithm" is probably hundreds of thousands of lines of code, including all the tedious boilerplate like cache policies and multi-AZ logic. And second of all, doesn't the algorithm include machine learning components, which are trained on terabytes of data? That data will likely be impossible to open source. And open sourcing the neu…
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This is most likely the correct answer. I doubt there is a single piece of code or algorithm that controls all of twitter. From my limited perspective it's just a catch phrase to simplify what is likely tens of thousands of lines of code.
Well, that's an algorithm. If you have to draw a diagram showing how edge cache nodes affect a user's results based on whether or not they signed in from New York or Phoenix, or if the downtime of a cluster affects the relevance rankings of tweets for a photography enthusiast, then guess what... That's an algorithm.
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If it’s a list of tweets ordered based on a kajillion ML data points that varies per user is it still an algorithm? And does every user have their own algorithm? And could it be made readable to a human?
Yes, irrelevant, and the code somewhere is readable. Take an example like gravity: is there an algorithm for how gravity acts even though it varies per each molecule based on a kajillion other molecules? Of course there is.
I've worked on very large scale recommendation systems at a FAANG. If Twitter's system resembles anything like ours, the concept of publishing or open sourcing "the algorithm" doesn't make sense. Even if we were to open source all associated code and publish all related documents it would be very difficult to make sense of the entire system. That is precisely why companies such as Twitter A/B test the hell out of eve…
I've worked on very large scale recommendation systems at a FAANG. If Twitter's system resembles anything like ours, the concept of publishing or open sourcing "the algorithm" doesn't make sense. Even if we were to open source all associated code and publish all related documents it would be very difficult to make sense of the entire system. That is precisely why companies such as Twitter A/B test the hell out of eve…
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There are elements of their algo that I think should be openly defined, and perhaps there should be some regulatory branch that reports to Congress that has full access. However, obfuscation is often necessary to countering bad actors.