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Re:twitter/the-algorithm by onlyrealcuzzo on Monday April 25, 2022 @05:24PM (#31160832)
In the end, it's still code that is being executed, which can be called "an algorithm". Algorithms are under no obligation to be simple or only include "one algorithm".
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Re:twitter/the-algorithm by krapp on Monday April 25, 2022 @05:29PM (#31160902)
So then "open sourcing the algorithm" likely means opens sourcing the entire Twitter codebase?
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Re:twitter/the-algorithm by baryphonic on Monday April 25, 2022 @05:42PM (#31161068)
At this point, what harm would that do to Twitter? The company's tech has been stagnant for years, and the only real features recently have been attempts to exploit Twitter's network effects to ape Clubhouse & Substack. (Seems successful for the former, kind of a failure for the latter.)
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Re:twitter/the-algorithm by stjohnswarts on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:59PM (#31161923)
do we know? has any angy ex-twitter engineer revealed the secret sauce to the world?
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