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If there is a total set of data, and a subset of it is produced for users, there is an algorithm. `SELECT TOP` is an algorithm. A ML model with a trillion param
by andrewmcwatters 5y ago
If there is a total set of data, and a subset of it is produced for users, there is an algorithm. `SELECT TOP` is an algorithm. A ML model with a trillion parameters is an algorithm.
There is no "no algorithm."
- sverhagen 5y agoYou're not wrong. But would it be useful to define better what we mean with algorithm then? Like: we mean "non-obvious algorithm"?
- andrewmcwatters 5y agoYou and I might be technical enough people to suss out little details, but I suspect the average person probably also wants to know whether or not something like Twitter testing a feature flag (Yes, really!) is affecting their timeline. If it affects results in the slightest, I think that's what people are asking about. Yeah, if the new senior dev screwed up a deployment and now football fans in Dallas are suddenly getting fewer posts about the most recent athlete scandal all because a regional deployment was the only thing doing relevance record keeping, then yes, that's a part of "the algorithm."
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