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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by throwaway29812 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:29PM (#35472397)
Then, according to the algorithm, you do want to see them.
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by phailhaus on Sunday April 16, 2023 @11:40PM (#35596620)
That's exactly the problem! I don't want to see them, but the algorithm refuses to ask me.

If they think that the length of time I spend on a post is 100% correlated with the amount that I want to see it, they really don't understand people at all.

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by throwaway29812 on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:15PM (#35603677)
> It's an embarrassingly shallow model of how how humans behave.

It's a trade off. Viewing rates give back feedback 100% of the time. Asking users for a thumbs up or down gives feedback almost none of the time, and still might not be accurate.

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