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> As always, this will be made open source and undergo continuous improvement. Wait - the recommender algorithms will be made open source? I find that hard to
by schmudde 3y ago
> As always, this will be made open source and undergo continuous improvement.
Wait - the recommender algorithms will be made open source? I find that hard to believe.
- cactusplant7374 3y agoHasn’t that already happened?
- viraptor 3y agoKinda. Something got dumped with very few updates since the first month. The last few commits specifically mention open source which would indicate there's a private version somewhere with more changes.
- yreg 3y agohttps://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
- jerojero 3y agoIf you think about it, the secret sauce tends to be in the data they're able to capture and input into the recommendation algorithms rather than the recommendation algorithm itself. I mean, even Tiktok has papers detailing their recommendation algorithm [1]. So does Youtube and plenty of others. It's all in the data now a days. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.07663.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.07663.pdf
- rco8786 3y agoIt's been OSS for a while - https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
- Yoric 3y agoTo be more precise, there is a snapshot of a subset of the algorithm available as AGPL at that address.