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I especially like the suggestions to rewrite the algorithm in Rust [1] and this pull request which simplifies the algorithm to a single c file [2].
[1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues?q=is%3Aissue... [2] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/712
Great pull request here which improves the algorithm: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/17
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Elons reply “I only learned about it now!”. What a crock of shit. We literally went through reporting a few months back where he was clearly instructing the team to make sure his tweets always come up, for everyone.
> We literally went through reporting a few months back where he was clearly instructing the team to make sure his tweets always come up, for everyone. Feel free to give me a source for that, but I'm pretty sure that's not true.
As far as I can tell, he did not instruct Twitter employees to make his Tweets appear to all users, but he did want them to make his posts appear in timelines significantly more often. This lead to reports of users suddenly getting their timelines flooded with lots of his Tweets.
It seems like there was a rush within Twitter to raise Musk’s engagement numbers by altering the recommendation algorithm to specifically boost posts from his accounts. The special boost factor was later reduced, but allegedly still exists.
[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets...
It's disappointing the comments are so obsessed with the political angle to this that there's a total lack of appreciation (or discussion) of opening up the most influential social media platform in the world.
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Parent didn’t say it’s not “political”. It’s reasonable for a wealthy person to feel that a system that discriminates against the poor is not a system they want to participate in. (Note that I use discriminate in the literal sense, as a simple statement of fact.)
lol you don't actually believe that's his reason do you?
Great! But nothing is going to change until people realize that the problem is the feedback loop . It's not the recommendation engine itself, it's the fact that there's no way "out" of the feed that the engine produces. It recommends you stuff, you have little choice but to engage with it, and then it trains on that information . This is the problem with most of social media today. It is a very well known problem in…
Thank you! Working on a concept for a big org on what may become a large ML-based system one day. I knew about this feedback loop issue, but was too dumb to actually remember and face this problem. :) It's all over today's rec engines -- and yet, just like the things we're not shown in these systems, the problem itself seems to become invisible. Because it requires new thinking. Worth exploring.
I wouldn't be surprised if Reddit actually has the best data on their user's preferences, because they let them explicitly decide what they want rather than playing this "hot and cold" game like TikTok. Those platforms also only let you subscribe to individual accounts, so they have to infer what your interests actually are.
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I would agree the quality of posts has gone downhill, and is way too political for my liking, but there's not much other place to go that isn't elitist.
Discord. As much as I hate Discord the platform (and I really do hate it, far more than, say, Twitter), Discord does have a lot of good communities.
It is really nice to see how bazel is used in the wild. It looks so clean. Why we are not using it for everything?
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This speculation seems mostly informed by a negative opinion of Elon. Is there any real indication he gave this instruction?
Yes that weekend everyone started seeing Elon's tweets in their timelines: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets... You seem weirdly protective of Elon fyi
This is largely a false creation without evidence to back it up. People are assuming intention behind something that's much more easily explained as a bug, one that was quickly fixed. If it wasn't a bug, why would it disappear if people assume Elon is narcissistic as people claim? It'd still be prioritizing his tweets if it wasn't a bug.
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As if Elon has a clue what that feature is or is not being used for.
He didn’t say he knew what it did? It’s a good enough response to say that it shouldn’t be doing that period.