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Just like with their last release, they only released the architecture and not the weights. It may be useful for analyzing the system if you're a competitor (but from my last dive into it, it seemed like a strict subset of fancier, industry-leading rec systems), or perhaps getting into rec / retrieval systems as a newcomer. However, this gives roughly zero insight into how Twitter's feed behaves.
For all its flaws .. it’s still a step up from how Parag and co used to run twitter
RIP author_is_elon, we hardly knew ye. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/236
Republican, Democrat, and Elon. Wow.
This is political targeting. This guy was one of the biggest political donors, how can this fly?
Just ping Nikita, he'll tell you the current algo.
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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?
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...
When this started it really put me off X - I'd have tolerated, and almost liked the idea, of a freedom of speeech place. But a place that boosts its owners posts... Nope.
I'm out - it's such a big personal diss of me, I'm not interested any more.
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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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Just like with their last release, they only released the architecture and not the weights. It may be useful for analyzing the system if you're a competitor (but from my last dive into it, it seemed like a strict subset of fancier, industry-leading rec systems), or perhaps getting into rec / retrieval systems as a newcomer. However, this gives roughly zero insight into how Twitter's feed behaves.
[1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/trust_and...
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https://people.com/human-interest/elon-musk-errol-musk-relat...
’“He was such a terrible human being,” Elon, 46, told the magazine. “You have no idea.”’
Daddy issues out the ass. This is actually the simplest answer, because people that pursue external validation (in Elon’s case it is very extreme, nothing is ever enough) are a genuine product of child abuse (it’s obvious emotional abuse is a major factor here).
I’m not absolving Elon, just trying to understand the initial state.
Edit:
When Elon finally came home from the hospital, his father berated him. "I had to stand for an hour as he yelled at me and called me an idiot and told me that I was just worthless," Elon recalls. Kimbal, who had to watch the tirade, says it was the worst memory of his life. "My father just lost it, went ballistic, as he often did. He had zero compassion."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/book-excerpt-elon-musk-by-walte...
Remember, this is a guy that showed up with a toilet to the Twitter offices and fired everyone, got on everyone’s case to sleep in the offices. He is a literal product of child abuse, and while he may not be continuing the cycle with his kids (which is hard to say because he disowned his Trans kid), he is absolutely unleashing the cycle of abuse onto others wherever he goes.