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Re:Facebook’s war on free will by deathgrindfreak on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @05:34PM (#15289033)
Exactly. To me he mistakes concepts like page ranking (which I think are much more akin to heuristics) with the purely mathematical concept of computation.
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Re:Facebook’s war on free will by hughw on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @05:47PM (#15289105)
Probably there are a lot of heuristics in page ranking now, but it began life as an eigenvalue problem [1].

[1]http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf

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