Recommendation Systems
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Recommendation Systems
- · Are we being reprogrammed by algorithms? In the last edition, I mentioned a recent tweet-er-xeet post by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. Jack suggested that we should all be able to choose the algorithm that controls our timelines across social media products. But the underlying premise is more interesting: As social algorithms get far more
Reprogramming Humanity’s Primal Instincts & What We Learn From A Future “History of Tech” Class
as a network scales, it is inevitable that you need a way to sort & rank content.
web 2.0 solved it by ranking for popularity but a better approach could be to have a minimal quality threshold but not to try to rank things above that - so the search is not maximization-driven and leaves more room for serendipity.
h/t ken stanley
In the rush to copy TikTok, many Western social networks have misread how easy it is to apply lessons of a very particular short video experience to social feeds built around other formats. If you’re Instagram Reels and your format and interface are a near carbon copy, then sure, applying the lessons of my three TikTok essays is straightforward.... See more
Eugene Wei • How to Blow Up a Timeline
