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Knowing the algorithms without having the data they operate on is useless. And even if you had the two, at this point you still wouldn't be able to debug how a
by throwwysranker 7y ago
Knowing the algorithms without having the data they operate on is useless.
And even if you had the two, at this point you still wouldn't be able to debug how a result is returned. The code is fairly complicated, there are many signals and quite a bit of ML.
source: worked as search ranking engineer and had quite a bit of difficulty debugging certain controversial results despite having access to everything.
- starbugs 7y agoThere seems to be a significant incentive to getting data that fits the purpose and run it through these algorithms. It's probably not trivial, but paid experts should be able to deal with it pretty quickly. It's probably enough to run confined experiments. I think you don't need all the data to derive the most important conclusions.
- nerdponx 7y agoI know I probably don't speak for the people who are drafting these rules, but personally that doesn't bother me so much. I don't have a specific interest in knowing the computations that produced a particular result, I just want to force some kind of transparency on how this data is being used and stored.
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