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Not an ML expert, but is it feasible to train the weights using the actual Twitter feed as an oracle?
No, even if you somehow were able to download the corpus of all public X posts. There are many hidden signals that are feature engineered in good recsys, and the stripped-down algo won't be able to replicate them.
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This is 100% for headlines and Musk to be able to say "we're open" during interviews. Its actual usefulness is not the point
The reporters should be getting down to the point and asking Elon Musk about the practical usefulness of such a heavily redacted public release.
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Republican, Democrat, and Elon. Wow.
Is this real? We accept that the algorithm may link you abstractly with other people, but I didn’t think they were literally labeling on this level. If you just say “we look for what’s similar and leave it at that”, then there’s much less liability. This is political targeting. This guy was one of the biggest political donors, how can this fly?
RIP author_is_elon, we hardly knew ye. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/236
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Why? I've never been a twitter user
Post Musk Twitter is amazing. It lets you see how stories, opinions that you support or don’t are attacked from all sides and Community noted / @grok fact checked … a lot of UX changes too .. pre Musk, the moderation / banning was biased and arbitrary (who is watching the watchers?) .. my personal fav was to see the special tick removed from journalists ..
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It’s not. The last “algorithm” release was a random grab bag of code which existed in some of the Twitter repo that might have been tangentially related to recommendations/feed. Source: worked at Twitter in ML/recsys.
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And people who work at X don't say they work at Twitter.
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Republican, Democrat, and Elon. Wow.
Is this real? We accept that the algorithm may link you abstractly with other people, but I didn’t think they were literally labeling on this level. If you just say “we look for what’s similar and leave it at that”, then there’s much less liability. This is political targeting. This guy was one of the biggest political donors, how can this fly?
The system is rigged. Haven't you noticed yet?
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but why does Bluesky feel so much faster to load and interact with compared to X? On the surface, both have similar interfaces and equally rich content, yet Bluesky consistently feels snappier and more responsive, even though it’s the newer platform.
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you can't, and it's 100% sure it's not this code running in prod
100% huh? That's a bold statement with no supporting evidence.