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All about social networks
Nilay Patel on the Ezra Klein podcast talking about whether AI will break the Internet:
Every social media platform right now is turning into a short form video home shopping network. Linkedin just added short form videos. Like, they're all headed towards the same place all the time because they all have the same pressures.
And what you see is those
... See moreThe two-tower era: efficient but static
The two-tower architecture has been the workhorse of modern recommendation systems, and for good reason: it’s elegant, scalable, and remarkably effective at learning patterns from massive amounts of data. Here’s how it worked for us once we deployed it in early 2024.
The system had two neural networks working... See more
The two-tower architecture has been the workhorse of modern recommendation systems, and for good reason: it’s elegant, scalable, and remarkably effective at learning patterns from massive amounts of data. Here’s how it worked for us once we deployed it in early 2024.
The system had two neural networks working... See more
Mike Cohen • How the Substack feed is learning to understand your reading journey
But the problems of the speech platforms are not ones of bad actors at the fringes. Rather, they are baked into the incentive structures of the platforms themselves, through the kinds of speech they reward and penalize. The platforms are rotten to the core, inducing us all to become noxious versions of ourselves.
Jon Askonas • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
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nathalielawhead.com
One way to understand computer systems in large social settings is as automated bureaucracies. Forget the hype and the jargon, that really is what they are. I know that no one gets excited about bureaucracy (except for social scientists, no kinkshaming) but what kind of bureaucracy runs any given important part of your life (and of society at... See more