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It's not the genuine article, but reading the title I imagined the effort it would require for Google to teach the French Senate how their algorithm worked. Thi
by tel 12y ago
It's not the genuine article, but reading the title I imagined the effort it would require for Google to teach the French Senate how their algorithm worked. This has an assumption that the algorithm is understandable first by politicians and second by... humans!
I have no firsthand knowledge at all of Google's "algorithm", but I assume given the investment they have in ML that it is on the side of "optimization, feature selection, and tuning" instead of "logical, human-understandable decision process".
- skj 12y agoThat's actually pretty fair. All the big players more or less have a handle on how to do Google-style search. The big differentiator is the data backing that search algorithm. The primary (not only) reason Google keeps its search algorithm details a secret is to prevent people from having an edge on gaming the system.
- peterkelly 12y agoI imagine it being of similar difficulty to Microsoft describing how Windows' virtual memory subsystem and similar components work. Imagine trying to explain the intricacies of NTFS to a bunch of politicians who wish to evaluate it.
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