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An Interview with Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger About Artifact
I like the way Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom put it when discussing the recent launch of his news recommendation app Artifact. “[B]uilding the algorithm is enormously editorial. Because what you choose to train your algorithm on—the objective function, the data you put in, the data you include, the data you don’t include—is
... See morefrom Recommendation Algorithms Are a Necessary Evil (Sort Of) by Evan Armstrong
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- Kelly’s vision depends on an evolution of the Internet in which the vast tangle of possible one-on-one connections partition into countless small cliques—each one a fandom or a mini community revelling in the discovery of others who share their quirks. Instead, the social-media giants effectively rerouted these connections through a small number of... See more
from The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class by Cal Newport
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