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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by Grimblewald on Thursday January 16, 2025 @07:43PM (#42732786)
the tiktok algo is genuinely impressive. What's cool is that the engineers published some works explaining how it functions.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07663

It's an interesting read if you're into recommender systems or AI in general. What amazes me is that despite this published work google and meta still can't produce a decent social media algorithm, so it's either incompetence or malice.

Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by throwaway48476 on Friday January 17, 2025 @08:23AM (#42737245)
Google can't even produce a decent search engine. I've switched to yandex.