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Re:Petition to Remove the Canadian Government from Twitter by minimaxir on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:49PM (#43122130)
> Almost the entire machine learning community that publishes opensource medical datasets and models... amongst other things, is on twitter.

More due to the inertia of network effects rather than inherent merit.

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Re:Petition to Remove the Canadian Government from Twitter by soco on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:02AM (#43125550)
Indeed, what is Twitter doing for the machine learning? Absolutely nothing per se, just giving a performant platform to connect. Could have been Myspace just as well, or Linkedin.
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