X's 'open source' algorithm isn't a win for transparency, researchers say

When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's "for you" algorithm last month, Elon Musk said the ...
Gizmodo

Twitter’s Recommendation Algorithm Is Now Open Source

Today is the day: In an effort to boost transparency between the public and the social media platform, CEO Elon Musk has made Twitter’s recommendation algorithm open source…for some reason. It would ...
Searchenginejournal.com

How The Twitter Algorithm Affects Users And Advertisers

Twitter recently released its algorithm source code on GitHub, which was met with debate and controversy. The release comes to increase transparency and give users a chance to offer feedback on how ...
Nature

Convolutional Codes and Decoding Algorithms

Convolutional codes represent a cornerstone in modern communications, offering a method for continuously encoding data streams to mitigate errors due to interference and noise. These codes operate by ...
Futurism

New Algorithm Generates Synthetic Human Genetic Code

We’ve seen AI algorithms create mostly-believable pictures of people’s headshots, works of art, news articles, and even pokémon. But now a team of scientists is taking things a step further, with an ...
Business Insider

Mark Cuban is asking Elon Musk to post X's algorithm source code

Mark Cuban thinks Elon Musk should open up X's algorithm for user feedback. "Unless of course you want to define it by yourself, which is of course your right," Cuban said. The "Shark Tank" star ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Interviewing the algorithm: How reporting and reverse engineering could build a beat to understand the code that influences us

Often, when there’s talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money. There’s the unending debate, for example, ...