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I Designed Algorithms at Facebook. Here’s How to Regulate Them
- jchonphoenix 5y agoFormer Data Scientist... This person is just attention seeking. The only people at FB who design algorithms are ML Engineers under the SWE ladder. You can immediately disregard this piece.
- djohnston 5y agoMostly agreed in a technical sense, but probably DS's have more sway than an ML SWE in terms of settling on the metrics that than ML model would be designed to move.
- iammisc 5y agoI don't care about facebook, but can we stop using the word 'algorithm' to describe a machine learning model? An algorithm is a sequence of steps with logic that you can translate into a programming language. An algorithm is deduced by considering performance requirements and an explicit problem to solve. A Machine learning model is a set of weights for an equation trained using empirical data and providing a fuzzy answer.
- idrios 5y agoTheir proposed solution (as I understood it) is to reform Section 230 to make platforms liable for illegal content that gets promoted/amplified -- and that doing this would make the algorithmic news feed too much of a legal liability. I get that the desired result is that Facebook reigns in its algorithmic ranking, but the actual result will probably be lengthy debates over what constitutes illegal posts, small fines that Facebook can afford to pay, and algorithmic censorship with a disgusting number of false positives. Would love to be corrected if I read that proposed change incorrectly.
- known 5y agohttps://archive.is/HfnQf https://archive.is/HfnQf