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This is reverse engineering, not divination. I just gave you a number of other algorithmic functions that would be just as likely to use such a list.
by ad404b8a372f2b9 4y ago
This is reverse engineering, not divination. I just gave you a number of other algorithmic functions that would be just as likely to use such a list.
- oneeyedpigeon 4y ago> you can make some educated guesses based on naming This is what people are doing. > but generally you want to check those guesses by seeing how, where and why a variable is used Agreed, but without the full source code available, this simply isn't possible.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoThat's fair which is why I'm asking if a piece of code has been published supporting the claim of down-ranking. If it hasn't the answer is to very carefully qualify the statement "Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine" rather than treating the people who question it as heretics.
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoI agree. It shows the danger of selectively releasing code and how the "Twitter open-sources algorithm" rhetoric is deeply misleading, at best. Hopefully, any misplaced analysis of the code will result in greater transparency.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoYeah it reminds me of everyone scrambling to draw conclusions from the leaked Yandex SEO algorithm, even though all the models were missing...
- 93po 4y ago> you can make some educated guesses based on naming > This is what people are doing. no, they're reporting on it as fact