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Re:twitter/the-algorithm by cscurmudgeon on Monday April 25, 2022 @07:06PM (#31161994)
> it doesn't boil down to 50 lines of code

No one said that. You created a straw man and are arguing with it.

This comment says more about you than you think.

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Re:twitter/the-algorithm by Traster on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:23AM (#31166090)
Go on then, what do you estimate the complexity of the algorithm to be. Because I'm going to ball park it and say to fully understand the algorithm behind twitter's feed, you probably need to open source twitter's entire production code base and it's research framework.
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Re:twitter/the-algorithm by cscurmudgeon on Thursday April 28, 2022 @01:08PM (#31195101)
> source twitter's entire production code base and it's research framework.

So why is that impossible? Mastodon exists. Is Twitter engineering so horrible that they are orders of magnitude worse than Mastodon's engineer quality?

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