#Algorithm

Friends: we’ve added fire extinguishers to the list & we need them ASAP. Sanitation won’t collect trash around the encampments, and it’s starting to pile up & cause fires. We’re
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A message from LSMMike:The more time passes since I left Twitter the more I realize I made the right decision. Honestly, social media isn't good for people's mental health. Twitter
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My daughter is 10. She watched videos about Frozen 2 on your site. The algorithm started recommending alt right rants about why there should not have been black people in
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Thoughts from using dating apps in 2020: Drinking is not a personality trait If you only have one picture - you’re not a real person. If you only have one
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Social media algorithm is designed such that it constantly validates your beliefs and tries to grab as much attention of yours as possible. If your ideology does not match with
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Today, Everalbum completed the dark turn that lies at the heart of surveillance capitalism.Join me for a trip down memory lane. 1/7https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/ever-once-accused-of-building-facial-recognition-tech-using-customer-data-s
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Almost every year we talk about the fundamental problem with standardised testing, and as with everything in the year of covid, this latest debacle simply provides an extreme example that
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Some applications of Machine Learning:RankingRecommendationClassificationRegressionClusteringAnomaly DetectionHere is a 3-second description of each one them: Ranking Help your users find the most relevant items they are looking for.For e
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Yesterday I was walking through the Park Hill neighborhood while my car was being worked on, and something happened that I want to tell you about because it seems more
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This is a huge problem. People can't just up and leave Facebook sometimes. They have communities there, they have family there, they have organizing that will only be done there.
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The dirtbag "left" has been around and increasingly influential for years now, and I only started worrying about/writing about them in March.Unless you're a target, they're easy to overlook.It's a
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What does it mean to have a linear relationship but with logarithms? You have a scatter plot, and you can clearly see the relationship between your two variables is not
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a reminder to artists to please not blame themselves for their art not getting enough interactions—the tw/tter algorithm is just extremely shitty and relies on trends, which is why art
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twitter puts people on the defense. everything is seen as an invitation for agreement or disagreement; whereas platforms like insta are more so a one-way information flow, of the person
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1 / I'd been thinking a lot lately about the smaller, more practically dangerous effects of unchecked disinformation on platforms with exponential sharing and community growth.Then I saw a woman
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Liking all the tweets of people who were blocked by peven stinker in a furious attempt to be cancelled by him asap, thereby making me officially a Cool Kid™ ok,
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