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So why did they opensource it?
If we can't build anything with this, is it "source"?
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#432From https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92... ( "author_is_elon", candidate => candidate .getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None).contains(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsElonFeature, 0L))), ( "author_is_power_user", candidate => candidate .getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None) .exists(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsVitsFeature, Set.empty[Long]).contains)), ( "author_is_democrat", candidate => candidate .getOrEls…
what is vits? private val DarkRequestAnnotation = "clnt/has_dark_request" private val Democrats = "democrats" private val Republicans = "republicans" private val Elon = "elon" private val Vits = "vits"
Very Important Tweeters, a play on VIP perhaps?
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NY Times, WaPo, LA Times and other major accounts too https://www.thewrap.com/ny-times-la-times-not-pay-for-twitte...
Seems dumb of them. Cost is trivial and their competition that isn’t so politically motivated will have a much further reach. The smart move would be silent on the policy change, pay, and support rival platforms as they can. Instead they will eventually pay and look like they lost.
For the NYT to verify their official accounts plus those of their reporters (using the Twitter Blue Affiliations feature) would be $1m annually. This, for a budget line item that has heretofore been $0. In this economy, that's a reach.
I don't think the NYT is worried about "reach."
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So they could pretend to be open. It's the "Open"AI model. Open-washing?
This is a very cynical take. They should be commended for publishing recommendation code at all, which no other major social network does.
Hey, we can get even more cynical. Why should we trust that this code is even similar to what they run in production currently?
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#435My favorite is ci/ci.sh
#!/bin/sh
exit 0Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
#436( "has_toxicity_score_above_threshold", _.getOrElse(EarlybirdFeature, None).exists(_.toxicityScore.exists(_ > 0.91)) )
`if (sourceUserId.isDefined || sourceUserId.isDefined) Some(true)`
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/timeliner...
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#437Kudos for open-sourcing this.
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Any time a billionaire buys a media company it's bad for the health of democracy.
i wasnt referring to him buying twitter, i was referring to him saying he was going to open source the recommendation engine and then doing it.
i agree billionaires owning media companies is huge problem
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#439From https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92... ( "author_is_elon", candidate => candidate .getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None).contains(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsElonFeature, 0L))), ( "author_is_power_user", candidate => candidate .getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None) .exists(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsVitsFeature, Set.empty[Long]).contains)), ( "author_is_democrat", candidate => candidate .getOrEls…
what is vits? private val DarkRequestAnnotation = "clnt/has_dark_request" private val Democrats = "democrats" private val Republicans = "republicans" private val Elon = "elon" private val Vits = "vits"
Very Important Tweets, I presume?
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#440Context: I teach at Princeton and study social media and recommendation systems. From a very quick skim of the repositories, this appears to be quite limited transparency. The documentation gives a decent high-level overview of how Tweet recommendation works—no surprises—and the code tracks that roadmap. Those are meaningful positive steps. But the underlying policies and models are almost entirely missing (there are…
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imagine thinking you need to read every file in a project to understand the architecture and which pieces are important for specific functionality you're looking to understand. Have you ever picked up a bugfix ticket for some code you didn't write?