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Quotes tagged “Algorithms”

“We push information, not by queries, by news recommendations,”
— Zhang Yiming, 35-Year-Old Unknown Creates the World’s Most Valuable Startup
Tagged: TikTok, Algorithms
“Newsletters could be a more reliable means of increasing readership for major publishers whose relationships with social networks have soured. Remember when Facebook moved away from promoting videos on the platform? Or when it decided to show more posts from friends and family, and de-emphasize content from publishers and brands? With every shift, big media companies had to adjust.”
— Mike Isaac, The New Social Network That Isn’t New at All
Tagged: Social Media, Algorithms, Newsletters
“Kids today are growing up in a post-broadcast era, and because of this, it’s absolutely essential to find ways to teach an understanding of algorithms, recommendation engines, and targeting. Why does the internet look different to everyone, and what does that mean?”
— tega brain, These kids designed their own targeted ads, and they’re hilarious
Tagged: Algorithms, Advertising, Targeting, Tech
“What’s both crucial and easy to miss about TikTok is how it has stepped over the midpoint between the familiar self-directed feed and an experience based first on algorithmic observation and inference. The most obvious clue is right there when you open the app: the first thing you see isn’t a feed of your friends, but a page called “For You.” It’s an algorithmic feed based on videos you’ve interacted with, or even just watched. It never runs out of material. It is not, unless you train it to be, full of people you know, or things you’ve explicitly told it you want to see. It’s full of things that you seem to have demonstrated you want to watch, no matter what you actually say you want to watch.”
— John Herrman, How TikTok Is Rewriting the World
Tagged: Algorithms, Feed, Tech, Culture, TikTok
“We call this endless, immaterial material a feed, though there’s little sustenance to be found.”
— Mairead Small Staid, Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction
Tagged: Tech, Feed, Algorithms, Substance
“Al Harrison: Ruth, what’s the status on that computer?

Ruth: She’s right behind you, Mr. Harrison.

[he turns and sees Katherine]

Al Harrison: Does she handle Analytic Geometry?

Ruth: Absolutely, and she speaks.

Katherine Johnson: Yes, sir, I do.

Al Harrison: Which one?

Katherine Johnson: Both. Geometry and speaking.

Al Harrison: Ruth, get me the…

[Ruth hands him a piece of paper]

Al Harrison: You think you, uh, you think you can find me the Frenet Frame for this data using the Gram-Schmidt…

Katherine Johnson: Orthogonalization algorithm. Yes, sir. I prefer it over Euclidean coordinates.

Al Harrison: Okay, good. Good, then I’m going to need it by the end of the day.

Katherine Johnson: Yes.

Al Harrison: I’m also going to ask you to check Mr. Stafford’s math as well as others’ on this floor from time to time.

Paul Stafford: I can, I can handle that, Al.

Al Harrison: I’m sure you can, Paul. I’m sure they all can. But if that were the case shingles wouldn’t be flying off the heat shield, now would they?”
— Al Harrison, Hidden Figures
Tagged: NASA, Algorithms, Geometry, Frenet Frame
“AI is akin to building a rocket ship. You need a huge engine and a lot of fuel. The rocket engine is the learning algorithms but the fuel is the huge amounts of data we can feed to these algorithms.”
— Andrew Ng, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Tagged: AI, Artificial intelligence, Algorithms, Building Smart Computers, Metadata is the Answer
“Remember: If your Facebook feed is filled with garbage, it means you were reading garbage in the first place. The algorithm simply gives you more of what you crave.”
— Jim VandeHei, 4 ways we all can work to fix "fake news"
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes, Facebook, Facebook Feed, Feeding You What You WAnt, Algorithms
“In ML, where algorithms get published quickly and state-of-the-art frameworks are open-source, there isn't any first-mover advantage.”
— François Chollet, via twitter.com
Tagged: Machine Learning, Algorithms, Business Analysis, Market Competition
“Naive Bayes is a family of probabilistic algorithms that take advantage of probability theory and Bayes’ Theorem to predict the category of a sample (like a piece of news or a customer review). They are probabilistic, which means that they calculate the probability of each category for a given sample, and then output the category with the highest one. The way they get these probabilities is by using Bayes’ Theorem, which describes the probability of a feature, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to that feature.”
— Bruno Stecanella, A practical explanation of a Naive Bayes classifier
Tagged: Naïve Bayes, Algorithms
“Score = (P-1) / (T+2)^G

where,
P = points of an item (and -1 is to negate submitters vote)
T = time since submission (in hours)
G = Gravity, defaults to 1.8 in news.arc”
— Amir Salihefendic, How Hacker News ranking algorithm works – Hacking and Gonzo – Medium
Tagged: Algorithms, Ranking
“A Bloom filter is a data structure designed to tell you, rapidly and memory-efficiently, whether an element is present in a set.

The price paid for this efficiency is that a Bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure: it tells us that the element either definitely is not in the set or may be in the set.”
— Bill Mill, Bloom Filters by Example
Tagged: Algorithms
“For an understanding of just how much space HLLs really save, consider the r/pics post included at the top of this blog post. It received over 1 million unique users. If we had to store 1 million unique user IDs, and each user ID is an 8-byte long, then we would require 8 megabytes of memory just to count the unique users for a single post!”
— Krishnan Chandra, View Counting at Reddit
Tagged: System Architecture, Algorithms, Scale
“The model tries to build a set of hyperplanes in a high dimensional space that tries to separate instances of different classes by getting the largest separation between the nearest instances from different classes. The concept intuitively is simple, but the model can be very complex and powerful. In fact, for some domains it is one of the best Machine Learning algorithms you can use nowadays.”
— Raúl Garreta, A Gentle Guide to Machine Learning
Tagged: Machine Learning, Support Vector Machines, Algorithms
“The way a NFA works is to consume one character at a time and compare that to a state graph which it has built up.”
— Nathan Hammond, route-recognizer
Tagged: Javascript, Algorithms, Frontend, Nondeterministic Finite Automata
“Second, the surveillance economy is way too dangerous. Even if you trust everyone spying on you right now, the data they're collecting will eventually be stolen or bought by people who scare you. We have no ability to secure large data collections over time.”
— Maciej Cegłowski, The Moral Economy of Tech
Tagged: Tech Morality, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Software Is Eating The World
“When we talk about the moral economy of tech, we must confront the fact that we have created a powerful tool of social control. Those who run the surveillance apparatus understand its capabilities in a way the average citizen does not. My greatest fear is seeing the full might of the surveillance apparatus unleashed against a despised minority, in a democratic country.

What we've done as technologists is leave a loaded gun lying around, in the hopes that no one will ever pick it up and use it.”
— Maciej Cegłowski, The Moral Economy of Tech
Tagged: Tech Morality, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Software Is Eating The World
“Those who benefit from the death of privacy attempt to frame our subjugation in terms of freedom, just like early factory owners talked about the sanctity of contract law. They insisted that a worker should have the right to agree to anything, from sixteen-hour days to unsafe working conditions, as if factory owners and workers were on an equal footing.

Companies that perform surveillance are attempting the same mental trick. They assert that we freely share our data in return for valuable services. But opting out of surveillance capitalism is like opting out of electricity, or cooked foods—you are free to do it in theory. In practice, it will upend your life.”
— Maciej Cegłowski, The Moral Economy of Tech
Tagged: Tech Morality, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Software Is Eating The World
“Fortunately we are smart people and have found a way out of this predicament. Instead of relying on algorithms, which we can be accused of manipulating for our benefit, we have turned to machine learning, an ingenious way of disclaiming responsibility for anything. Machine learning is like money laundering for bias. It's a clean, mathematical apparatus that gives the status quo the aura of logical inevitability. The numbers don't lie.”
— Maciej Cegłowski, The Moral Economy of Tech
Tagged: Tech Morality, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Software Is Eating The World
“So the only thing we can do is to continue to demand that these services provide what we think we need, the 'we' being both individual and collective, and keep paying attention to the way they have structural problems in doing so. Whether that's algorithm or editorial acumen or yellow journalism, these are just the kinds of problems that emerge when institutions try to produce information on a public and commercial basis across a technical platform. We're just facing the newest version of that.”
— Tarleton Gillespie, Q&A: Tarleton Gillespie says algorithms may be new, but editorial calculations aren’t
Tagged: Algorithms, Insights, Publishing, The internet

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