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In the end, it's still code that is being executed, which can be called "an algorithm". Algorithms are under no obligation to be simple or only include "one alg
by onlyrealcuzzo 5y ago
In the end, it's still code that is being executed, which can be called "an algorithm". Algorithms are under no obligation to be simple or only include "one algorithm".
- krapp 5y agoSo then "open sourcing the algorithm" likely means opens sourcing the entire Twitter codebase?
- baryphonic 5y agoAt this point, what harm would that do to Twitter? The company's tech has been stagnant for years, and the only real features recently have been attempts to exploit Twitter's network effects to ape Clubhouse & Substack. (Seems successful for the former, kind of a failure for the latter.)
- stjohnswarts 5y agodo we know? has any angy ex-twitter engineer revealed the secret sauce to the world?