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  • Nougat@fedia.io
    46·
    11 hours ago

    … a discussion Musk conducted last week with AfD co-leader Alice Weidel, in which she was given free rein to promote her party’s platform and make false claims about Adolf Hitler, …

    Elon searched online for the nearest Nazi bar, and went there on purpose to talk to Nazis about Nazi things.

  • Ben MatthewsEnglish
    261·
    10 hours ago

    Good start, but ‘Documents’ is the wrong, bureaucratic approach - if there are any papers they will be vague and old. The algorithm is code, and just a few characters adjusted in an obscure place can make a huge difference. I recall twitter published their old algorithm - scala code - a couple of years back, so what we need is a continuous update of that, together with some testing mechanism to check that it’s really the same as applied on their servers, without extra secret please-boss-backdoor-tweaks. Of course even better in the longer term - attract people away to the fediverse.
    Meanwhile more general problem - european union doesn’t support enough people who understand such code.
    Note also some good comments below the article.

    • Thorry84@feddit.nlEnglish
      6·
      8 hours ago

      Meanwhile more general problem - european union doesn’t support enough people who understand such code.

      Could you elaborate on that? In what way does the EU not support those people?

      • Ben MatthewsEnglish
        13·
        6 hours ago

        I’m thinking culturally, long-term, EU has prioritised diversity of human languages more than coding skills. The evidence is in the global distribution of big software, first usa, also former soviet union, china, india, uk.
        It might be said, that ideas emerge well here, but are nurtured (/ exploited ) across the pond. Also thinking from personal experience, my skill in coding, nurtured in one of those “anglo-saxon” countries, was not so appreciated here near the heart of the eu. Of course there are exceptions (especially known among us on lemmy), one example is scala language - as used in that twitter algorithm - which is mainly developed in switzerland + poland. Anyway, the next four years could provide obvious motivations to change this.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      In my experience working in FAANG, the docs are worth a lot more than the code. The code for the algorithm might be affected by thousands of different things, but the docs would give an overview.