@zeynep a bit more frustrating in academia where precision matters, and that verbiage makes me doubt whether the person knows their stuff.
@blaine @makmanalp Folks say, for ex., Twitter censored #occupy from trending. Well, it's TF*IDF. It is a choice. But intent isn't +
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@blaine@makmanalp ..to censor that word, but it is indeed downstream from design choices. So it is editorial, but not like humans. Etc. etc -
@zeynep@makmanalp exactly. And algorithms interacting with human behaviour and network topology means unimaginable complexity. - Show replies
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I'm on a v slow connection at the moment, but this is exactly what I meant by "unimaginative" re: algorithms.