Oh, what, wow, umm. "Facebook gets rid of human vetting to avoid responsibility for whatever ends up in trends."https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/769339937623859200 …
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Seems FB kept key components: algorithmically surfacing topics (some form of tf-idf) and algorithmically personalizing list on p(click).
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The only change is trend descriptions will no longer be writted by humans. They will be less useful but FB can do it faster at bigger scale.
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the hidden news here is a team of engineers rather than editors is now "determining that a topic is newsworthy"
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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this is good because engrs & algorithms have no biases. Right? Reminds me of Minsky/Sussman koan (3rd down) http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html …
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