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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by mrguyorama on Thursday August 10, 2023 @01:28PM (#37079034)
>The engineers at Google do know how our algorithmic systems work because they write them.

So there's zero machine learning or statistical modeling based functionality in your search algorithms?

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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by dannysullivan on Thursday August 10, 2023 @01:47PM (#37079330)
There is. Which is why I specifically talked only about writing for algorithmic systems. Machine learning systems are different, and not everyone fully understands how they work, only that they do and can be influenced.
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