Over the years I've heard lots of weird stories about Facebook friend recs. This summer a weird thing happened to mehttp://gizmodo.com/facebook-figured-out-my-family-secrets-and-it-wont-tel-1797696163 …
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If they use machine learning, it's not just a matter of "won't", it's a matter of "can't".
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Machine learning-trained neural networks simply cannot explain how they have reached a decision and why.
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Any chance that Facebook may have hooked up with Ancestry to share network connections? I thought ancestry couldn't share living people's..
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... info, but maybe they figured out a workaround to share the equivalent of enough metadata to help Facebook?
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Interesting story. You mention your father doesn't use Facebook, but has he ever installed WhatsApp or Instagram (or other fbook-owned app)?
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If you know how PYMK tech works, I would love to hear from you!http://gizmodo.com/do-you-know-how-pymk-or-other-friend-recommendation-sys-1798326649 …
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Most of these are guided by unsupervised machine learning algorithms... which means Facebook doesn't know exactly how it knows.
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re not being users of FB, it's been known for years they track non-users http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1717563 …
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Amazingly creepy story from
@kashhill: Facebook recommended I friend a relative I didn't know existed http://gizmodo.com/facebook-figured-out-my-family-secrets-and-it-wont-tel-1797696163 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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