Aaaand the issues turned into a shitpost
Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
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#22You gotta hand it to Elon - he actually did it.
Did he? Considering the vast majority of the algorithm is waved away as “ML model”.
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#24GitHub repo: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/
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#25Great pull request here which improves the algorithm:
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/17
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#26I'm no fan of either Twitter nor Elon Musk, but this is a great move and I hope other companies follow what Twitter did here and start open sourcing more core parts like this. Maybe it's mostly useful for learning how it works, not for directly using it in your own product, but the amount of transparency it gives users cannot be understated. As long as that actually is the code they run, but there would be no way for anyone but Twitter to verify that.
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#27Wouldn't any such system depend on 10 other internal systems, 20 databases directly or indirectly, each affecting the behaviour of the recommendation engine. That makes me doubtful studying such a recommendation engine is any better than a purely academic exercise.
Having anything public at all is wildly better than the nothing that is standard among social media companies.
Let's not focus criticism on an attempt to do something.
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#28Rank each Tweet using a machine learning model. This does a lot of heavy lifting here.
There appears to be a repo for the-algorithm-ml: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml
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#29You gotta hand it to Elon - he actually did it.
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Or an alternative view: no matter what he does there will always be haters and there are massive (political) incentives to destroy his public persona.
Those incentives also align nicely with those of hedge funds that are short TSLA as well as family offices that are short Tesla (hello Billy boy Gates).
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#30Does it show the part where is recommends Elon more than anyone else?