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    1. …in reply to @undefined
      max_read I think these companies like to play the algorithm as their essential secret sauce. But I wonder if the advantage is just as much their storage and cpu capabilities. Even if I had Google's algorithm today, I don't have the decisions store that powers their machine learning...
  1. …in reply to @Chronotope
    max_read Nor do I have the multiple archives of the internet to run it on or to operate on to deliver results at high speed.
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      max_read Sometimes I wonder if the companies themselves even really know what their advantage is, considering machine learning means they don't really know why the algo selects X over Y.
      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
        max_read I'm pro Warren's plan, but I generally wonder if the companies tech, as currently run, could ever prove themselves to be without bias. A big question is how to open access to a decision process that even the engineers who kicked it off don't currently understand?
        1. …in reply to @Chronotope
          max_read Perhaps it would mean the end of machine learning driving the algorithms of platforms? If so, I don't think it would be a bad thing, but it would definitely open them up to unprecedented competition over presenting content on different signals as priority.


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