Unsurprising, but good to have explicitly laid out:
"The overall effect of looking at my Substack dashboard is 'wow, Substack is really getting me an audience! If I leave Substack, half of my subscription channel will dry up.' It’s clear that this is the impression other writers, the media, and investors are getting as well, because they praise Substack about it all the time."
Absolutely fascinating deep-dive into the core data structures the folks at Zed Industries use for their #Zed#editor!
"Currently there are over 20 uses of the SumTree in Zed. [...] The list of files in a project is a SumTree. The information returned by git blame is stored in a SumTree. Messages in the chat channel: SumTree. Diagnostics: SumTree."
Why are algorithms called algorithms? A brief history of the Persian polymath you’ve likely never heard of.
Over 1,000 years before the internet and smartphone apps, Persian scientist and polymath Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī invented the concept of algorithms.
I tried to do a Tik Tok video about how the online safety act would censor content and it was ironically throttled for mentioning categories that would be censored. I think we ought to try and use different platforms to reach people about digital rights issues but those platforms don’t make it easy to do so. #censorship#digitalrights#algorithm
I had to keep telling my kid & their cousins who were visiting, that those Joe Biden falling down videos and Maga booster memes they keep watching are political
I mean sure, those Maga memes are hillarious. Funny as hell. But the #AI that runs the #algorithm can’t tell a prank from a political campaign
”Just some funny videos for the kids”. Yeah, right
And we don’t even live in the US! Yet the kids are talking in Maga rhetoric which I have to keep calling out
"The characters in the book were forever making sacrifices or performing rituals so the gods would smile on their endeavors. Often the rituals didn’t work, but the humans somehow never blamed the gods, only themselves." Why @artologica.net paints the algorithm. https://open.substack.com/pub/artologica/p/how-i-became-the-voice-of-the-algorithm
Mastodon is built differently. Just like the birdsite, you won't see every toot in existence but the 'why' is different. On birdsite, an #algorithm decided. Here, it's your #social connections that truly, organically determine what you see.
It works because it gives you control over who you interact with, and the people you interact with shape the timelines of you and all your neighbors.
In the latest bill to send aid to Ukraine, a part was added to force TikTok to divest and sell their American presence.
Which, isn't going to happen. TikTok isn't going to sell their very unique algorithm nor will China, who only owns 20% of the app, nor it's investors be willing to sell.
What really sucks is that we'd all be a lot better if politicians would just give us protection against ALL services.
But no. There's no money in that so, not happening.
Separating 2000 points using simplex noise as the desired distance. 30 iterations. Slow. The points start in a rectangle 300 pixels away from the edge, then they are slowly pushed outwards. #CreativeCoding#naive#algorithm
Fmr #Trump treas sec #Mnuchin is telling investors he has a plan to buy #TikTok
Mnuchin told potential backers he aims to maneuver around its price of >$100B & #China’s ban of the export of recommendation #algorithms.
He indicated he could overcome those hurdles by offering to buy the #app w/o the export-blocked #code, essentially forcing his consortium to remake a service built on billions of lines of code.
“Everyone wants to build a #TikTok-level #algorithm. That’s a key element of competition in… #tech …right now,” said Matt Perault, UNC prof & fmr #Facebook dir who studies tech #policy.
“…the biggest cos have thrown a lot of money & #engineering talent at that issue & have struggled to do it. If #Mnuchin thinks he can do that & succeed where…successful cos have struggled, good luck.”
Mnuchin, [is] a fmr hedge fund mngr & Hollywood producer w/no #SocialMedia experience….
The effect of ”hatebook’s” #algorithm is truly chilling when it picks up on something people love to hate.
Where normal people would leave something old to pass, Meta’s hate-monger conjurer keeps putting it in front of people when they’re most likely to post something off the rails, for example friday night when they’ve had a little wine.
It knows everyone’s weak point, and keep bringing that old thing up and up again, sometimes getting multiple posts form the same person even. #socialmedia
Today I have rediscovered playing music from a set of my own curated purchase, rather than from an algorithm of recommendations. My musical tastes are much more varied than the algorithm would suggest! #ai#algorithm#web3#streaming