Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

Post by calvinmorrison » Mon, Apr 03, 2023, 7:52 PM UTC

xmcqdpt2 wrote: post #869

calvinmorrison wrote: post #427

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Maybe it's weird, but for all the work I have ever done, I have never used CI/CD in the way that it was meant to be used, or never really leveraged it. Maybe all of my past jobs were unprofessional, but like, I see a lot of jobs using "CI/CD experience required" and I think... huh I wonder if they actually do it

Wait so you just merge right into prod? That sounds scary. The thing I work on runs like tens of thousands of tests on large PRs. It's reassuring but sometimes annoyingly slow.

Post by rvz » Tue, Apr 04, 2023, 10:52 AM UTC

Sebguer wrote: post #990

rvz wrote: post #294

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Care to comment on this? [0] Surely Twitter hasn't open sourced and released the recommendation algorithm as you predicted right? Or perhaps when a prediction didn't go according to plan, let us complain about another thing... [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35213705

He's not going to fuck you.

Post by bboygravity » Tue, Apr 04, 2023, 3:53 PM UTC

kaba0 wrote: post #813

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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).

Or, hear me out, maybe he is just a terrible person with some insane level of narcissism who will talk shit about everything without being half competent at that, and recently the consequences of his very own shitty decisions have been catching up to him. You can be only so stupid to acquire Twitter overpriced and drive it to the ground, there is no need for “political incentives”, when he is quite good at destroying…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 04, 2023, 9:06 PM UTC

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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.

> Seems dumb of them. Cost is trivial and their competition that isn’t so politically motivated will have a much further reach. It's wild hubris for twitter to try to invoice/penalize the very users and organizations that make twitter anything but insolvent. There should be money exchanged here, but it should be flowing generously and most importantly in the other direction .

Post by Lord_Zero » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 1:32 PM UTC

tpmx wrote: post #60

jonathanmayer wrote: post #45

Context: 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…

Did you also skim the accompanying (or rather, main) repo, https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm ? From a quick clone and line-count, it has: 235 kLOC .scala 136 kLOC .java 22 kLOC .py 7 kLOC .rs So I don't think you did, since you posted so quickly and that's a LOT of code. I also haven't skimmed this code except very superficially, but perhaps you should since you're out there making statements with your Princet…