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Re:Google Interferes with Its Search Algorithms and Changes ... by pochamago on Sunday November 17, 2019 @02:06PM (#21559415)
People feel like algorithms are neutral and people are biased. Having people actively intervene on something that only algorithms would have touched otherwise feels bad if you already suspected that your results aren't what they should be
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Re:Google Interferes with Its Search Algorithms and Changes ... by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Sunday November 17, 2019 @03:13PM (#21559797)
Yeah, people who don't have practical experience with them seem to think of algos as a kind of designed policy, like laws. Exceptions to the laws seem to be hypocrisy. In reality, algos are just a way to scale and automate some goal. Exceptions compensate for imperfection execution of that goal.
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