A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...
Twitter announced on Friday that it's open-sourcing the code behind the recommendation algorithm the platform uses to select the contents of the users' For You timeline. However, the code made public ...
Nearly a year after Elon Musk first floated the idea of making Twitter’s recommendation algorithm public, the company has posted the source code for its recommendation algorithm on GitHub. In a ...
ByteDance-owned TikTok on Thursday refuted a report stating that the platform is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its 170 million U.S. users. What Happened: TikTok intends to ...
As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code to public inspection, including the algorithm it uses to recommend tweets in users' timelines. On ...
In the age of Facebook and Netflix, the word “algorithm” has become so ubiquitous, and its connotation so amorphous, that it’s verging on jargon—maybe even cliché. The Atlantic’s Ian Bogost has ...
Elon Musk offered a rare look into the social platform’s algorithm. Experts say you shouldn’t take it too seriously. The move was unprecedented, but this probably won’t go down as a great day in the ...
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