Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine

Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by Someone1234 on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:05PM (#35392785)

Here is a screenshot in case this changes later:

And, no, this wasn't in a merge-request, it was in the "main" branch of HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala.

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by tantalor on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:11PM (#35392869)

What's all the "DDG"? Is this data from DuckDuckGo?

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by bcherry on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:33PM (#35393226)

DuckDuckGoose is the twitter A/B test framework

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by nonethewiser on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:46PM (#35393392)

I see Twitter engineers are not from Minnesota.

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by mcast on Friday March 31, 2023 @05:02PM (#35393610)

That's actually kind of a cool and fitting name.

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by nanny on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:32PM (#35393220)

Maybe the name for an internal service/environment. It's also referenced in this viral tweet from November:

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by tyingq on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:31PM (#35393192)

Probably something like "Data Distribution Group".

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by asddubs on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:25PM (#35393105)

I doubt it, since the isElon thing also has the abbreviation

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