#Algorithm
If you want to get your freak on, and use, or have used, #HULU, go to their privacy section and request a 'Right to Know' privacy report of the personal information they have about you. #Privacy
I did because I haven't used Hulu, or been to their website, for many, many years and they sent me a birthday discount coupon.
What is most alarming is who they think I am as determined by their "Tastes and Onboarding"
#algorithm.
Backdoor in the #TEA1 based #TETRA radio network for secure communication in use by over 100 countries. The TEA1 #cryptographic #algorithm can be broken in 12 minutes on a regular, commercial laptop. https://www.cryptomuseum.com/radio/tetra/burst.htm
The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled on Thursday (7 December) that decision-making by scoring systems that use personal data is unlawful. This makes a lot of services (public or otherwise in breach of GDPR.
Also SCHUFA has been found guilty of breaching the GDPR.
This ruling was a long time coming and is a cause for celebration.
"Similar"
I meeeeanโฆ 2 out of 5? What's similar with those other 3, the existence of *lots* of blood? ๐ #Jellyfin #Anime #Algorithm #GoHomeYoureDrunk #CheekyVampire #HighschoolOfTheDead #Kashimashi #ElfenLied #HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi #MegaMasochist
I see that
@NPR
has 14,000 odd followers
people say there is no #algorithm on #Mastodon but surely having a small number of accounts with so many followers is a de facto algo ?
I want to solve the following problem of #partitions. Consider X = {1, 2, ..., n} and partitions P_1, ..., P_k on this set. I want to find partitions Q_1, ... , Q_l, such that
1. each P_i is coarser than (or equal to) some Q_j;
2. the common refinement of all P_i's is the same as the common refinement of all Q_j's;
3. the number of blocks in all Q_j's is minimal.
Is this a known problem? Or are there any relevant notions I should look up? Ideally, I want an #algorithm to solve it, I guess that it is (NP-)hard.
In the picture you see an instance of this problem. A (small) part of the #partition #lattice for n=6 is drawn. P_1, ..., P_4 have 8 blocks in total, and I can find Q1 and Q2 with 5 blocks together. The common refinement here is the partition {{1}, {2}, ..., {6}}, which has 6 blocks.
โถ๏ธ The push to turn empty offices into #housing; (about 25% can be converted)
the debate around paid sick days; concerns about teens using nicotine pouches; and turning galaxies and space into music
#canada #housing #officebuilding #emptyofficespace #algorithm #housingcrisis
The third-largest state in Germany has an official #mastodon server.
(With an umlaut in its domain name!)
Imho all #governments in all countries on all levels should communicate via the #fediverse, instead of via commercial services. Why should a profit-maximizing feed #algorithm, and an ad placement algorithm get between the citizen and their government in a democracy?
A company developing DNA into a feasible method for large-scale data storage unveiled a credit card-sized device using DNA for off-line data storage.
https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=45463
#DNA #Biotechnology #DataStorage #DataCenters #StorageMedia #StartUp #Genomics #Sequencing #Algorithm #France
A new voice emerges in my latest #Algorithm paintings https://artologica.etsy.com
#art #sciart #watercolor #fedigiftshop
Animate anyone with a single image input:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PCn5hLKNu4
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML #DeepLearning #tech #technology #algorithm #animation
A developer of medical monitoring systems with data from wearable devices will soon start asking individuals with epilepsy to offer data for an algorithm that predicts seizures.
https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=45455
#News #Press #Science #Business #Epilepsy #Seizures #Neuroscience #Wearable #SmartWatch #Algorithm #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Forecast #RealWorldData
Obsequience to The Almighty #Algorithm is just one more thing that has is living in an increasingly #Orwellian #dystopia
We truly are living in an age in which we are observing in fucking real time the adoption of Newspeak.
I was listing to a newscast on the way to get breakfast this morning and was thunderstruck when the anchor of whichever program it happened to be was reporting on Yet Another Multiple Shooting In America.
No one was killed though. No one died.
But the perpetrator did, according to the broadcast which was on national television, "unalive" himself.
What in the strawberry flavored tap-dancing monocle-and-top-hat donning fuck.
#ITByte: A #Quantum #Algorithm is an algorithm which runs on a realistic model of quantum computation, the most commonly used model being the #QuantumCircuit model of computation.
Here is an introduction to Quantum Algorithms.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/learning/topics/Quantum-Algorithms;course=Quantum-Computing
In the #fediverse the #algorithm that is used on #web1 and #web2 on #web3 is client side. Different type of manipulating but similar.
Keep that in mind. ๐คฏ #infosec algorithm advice on #web3 safety
Can we just celebrate for a moment that there is no manipulative artificial algorithm on this platform?
Google has a mountain of behavior data on me, and probably knows how viciously anti-diamond I am. Yet these ads regularly pop up in my news feed.
Google charging a client for an ad hit that will never materialize into traffic for their company, and frustrating me to make more money on totally fake metrics.
Both consumers and advertisers are getting squeezed for a more enshittified experience.
Apollo 11 (Edition unread package insert) is a project using the computer to step once more into territory unknown to human beings.
The mission was completed in 2019, the 50 years anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon, where the computer was instrumental in enabling the astronauts for humans first step on the moon.
Today, 50 years later, the computer serves more than ever to generate new concepts and to advance into new spheres. In this project, the components of the commercially available scale-modelling set of Apollo 11 (Columbia & Eagle) were entered into a computer.
Using a machine learning algorithm, the computer created five different ways to assemble the model. These five models were all assembled far away from the instructions of the package insert coming along with the scale-modelling set and thus show a push into new dimensions previously untouched by human hands.
More information: https://www.olsen.studio/apollo-11/
#apollo11 #moonlanding #machinelearning #computer #rechner #algorithm #artenumerique #spaceexploration #ai #video #kdenlive #ffmpeg #inkscape #R #Python#Darktable
Ant colony optimization algorithms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algorithms
"[T]he ant colony optimization #algorithm (ACO) is a #probabilistic technique for solving computational problems which can be reduced to finding good paths through #graphs. Artificial ants stand for multi-agent methods inspired by the behavior of real ants. The pheromone-based communication of biological ants is often the predominant paradigm used."
The lawsuit claims that the algorithm often generates unrealistic estimates, resulting in shortened nursing home stays and subsequent payment denials by UnitedHealth.
๐คจ โA new game aims to improve #artificialintelligence #AI detection in #autonomousvehicles #AV by challenging people to avoid being recognized by an object-detection #algorithmโ
Or instead of playing games invest time and money on #safestreets, #trafficcalming, #walkability and #publictransport #transit
You win this street game by getting โhitโ by a #selfdriving car https://bigthink.com/the-present/you-win-this-street-game-by-getting-hit-by-a-self-driving-car/ #carcentric #motonormativity #mobility
Looking for a new job?
This is How AI is Transforming Your Job Search
Don't let the #Algorithm stop your effort!
๐ https://fedica.com/blog/this-is-how-ai-is-transforming-your-job-search/
I was follwing the #AngryStaffer for quite some time before Elmo kicked me out from #Twitter last year.
I was often amazed about the introspective.
However, even intelligent people do stupid things:
it's the #algorithm, stupid!
At this point, anyone still posting on #X ist complicit. Full stop.
No exceptions, and in particular not for highly informed, well-meaning people!
Q* (pronounced Q star). What is this new algorithm, a mix of A-star with Q-learning, maybe?
I get the feeling that something has changed in the last days on SoundCloud. Older tunes by me get replays. That has not happened for two years or so. Wondering if this is just a statistical coincidence or a trend. But it has been going on for the last week.
at Q3: What extra value could #EOSC offer in addition to NFDI?
In the consortium @NFDI4DS we take also care of source code/scripts/algorithms which are an integral part of the "data" in #datascience.
EOSC will provide infrastructures for software source code.
NFDI could use this infrastructure and/or connect to this.
This brings the #federation into practice for our developers.
Have you seen this?
#UnitedHealth is the largest health insurance company in the US. It is using an algorithm (โ#AIโ) that has a 90% error rate to deny care to seniors, according to a class action #lawsuit.
โan investigation by StatNews โฆ largely backs the lawsuit's claims.โ
UnitedHealth pushed employees to follow an #algorithm to cut off #Medicare patientsโ rehab care
https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/14/unitedhealth-algorithm-medicare-advantage-investigation/
The #fediverse is SO much worse for my executive function *because* there is no #algorithm so if I don't check it frequently I *will* miss things.
I need an algorithm so I can go back to only checking it when I'm pooping, as is the way God intended.
Me: Ooh, I am very interested in this fraud story. I would like to watch videos about this scammer being caught and prosecuted.
YouTube: We see you are enjoying videos about FINANCIAL FRAUD. Would you also like to watch videos about buying gold, a course on becoming your own boss and learning about why women shouldn't be allowed to play video games?
Fascinating.
โIt is expensive to spread disinformation and propagandaโฆEvery time you boost a post, every time you comment, every time you share a post that is telling the truth or exposing the truth, you are costing those who are spending disinformation money, because they are going to have to spend way more to counter whatever it is you are sharing.โ
I think this is correct in the aggregate for #socialMedia that is #algorithm-driven (i.e. basically everything outside the Fediverse). If you set your posts to public, the posts that you share and boost will eventually become recommended to people at the margins, and will cost disinfo vendors money to counteract. https://newsie.social/@LALegault/111427360189023183
@openculture A anรกlise comportamental hoje รฉ uma desgraรงa, ainda mais com o uso de #algorithm #racism!
A tragรฉdia รฉ que jรก foi muito pior que agora.
Por exemplo: As pessoas eram identificadas como comunistas, por falar sobre โviolaรงรฃo dos direitos civisโ, โdiscriminaรงรฃo racial ou #religionโ e atรฉ mesmo #paz
Em outras palavras, eles eram culpados se sugerissem que o #governo do estado da #Bahia de #guantanamo estava ou estar ultrapassando os limites, triste!
Doodling with Jessica is a lot of fun. She wanted to make it monochromatic. So we compromised and left out red and purple.
This illustrates a way to make a #Voronoi diagram. Start with nodes (points). Connect them to their neighbors with edges (line segments). Find the midpoint of each edge, and paint a blob of color around each node up to the midpoints on the edges that touch that node. Very meditative.
#Watercolor, black ink, cotton paper
#mathart #network #doodle #algorithmicart #algorithm
in preparation for the upcoming #adventofcode I spent some time refreshing some #algorithm knowledge with http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/ the book is free, easy to read and understand
The nice thing about #Bluesky is that when you make jokes people get them and joke back.
We should implement that feature on the #Fediverse
Of all the things I lost when I lost #Twitter, "Not interested in this post" is the one I miss the most.
#Bluesky is beating the #Fediverse because it has an #algorithm
Many say they don't like #algorithm-free platforms because they can't read everything at the time they check in.
I'm always astonished how often my very old #posts are boosted, liked or commented especially on week-ends.
The secret behind are #hashtags.
Often people subscribe their favourite hashtags or #groups. (My dog's fans e.g. take # BilboToday). On a cosy Sunday afternoon, they watch what came in ... Hashtags make your posts a kind of more timeless! #feditips #realTime #timeline
My Google Quick Look news feed has decided I'm fluent in Korean.
Over a decade ago, I did live in South Korea. I had an account with a Korean bank, got the occasional email in Korean, and read Korean news in English. For years after, I would get the occasional Korean ad on Gmail or YouTube. It recently stopped.
And now this.
Iโm going to say this again: I really like @mammothโs recommendation feed โFor youโ and its smart and healthy recommendations algorithm that brings up things I like to see without any monetary gain. Not all algorithms are evil, they help the user at best, when they are opt-in.
I have discovered a lot of new follows and it really makes a change in my way of using the Fediverse. We should really consider something like this as a standard, opt-in, as a choice. It kinda already is because we have Mammoth, but only for limited scope of users (iPhone only).
Good job, Team Mammoth!
#Mammoth #Mastodon #Algorithm #Algorithms #SocialMedia #Fediverse
What I Wish I Knew ... about what interviewers want to hear
#Microsoft #Developer #Youtube
Yup, you could try to hack at Google's #algorithm. LinkedIn's. X's.
Do what you're told, when you're told, with the right bells & whistles.
Feels good to catch that wave. Then you're off it, and that's a bummer. That's when we buy ads to get back on - to bypass the lineup.
"Algorithm" means "A finite sequence of rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems".
You have those. For work. For study. For play. For art. For decades.
Hack these instead. Be your own puzzle.
After a day spent trying to get more people to look at that Hooded Crow video, I'm gladder than ever that I haven't tied my fortunes to an #algorithm like #YouTube 's. A video maker I follow with many subscribers is in a state of despondency after his latest video bombed with only 4K views, which is 10 x more than the most-viewed video on my brother's channel.
Now, that creator's videos were a lot more work and are higher quality than my brother's, but still, it's rough out there.
50-Year-Old Program Gets Speed Boost - At first glance, getting a computer program to run faster than the first electroni... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/07/50-year-old-program-gets-speed-boost/ #retrocomputing #optimization #mathematics #algorithm #assembly #bellard #eniac #intel #speed #pi
Iโm often drawn to check on #Threads and see what the #algorithm is promoting. Get a sense of what people are talking about.
In the recent days itโs started showing me more content from the Gaza-Israel war.
Iโd be one thing if those were thoughtful analysis but itโs been a lot of very anti-Semitic stuff and very poorly thought pro-Israel army arguments denying civilians are getting killed.
A good reminder why I like Mastodon and should stay away from algos, itโs absolute garbage out there.
I think the #fediverse needs an #algorithmic #timeline. Fortunately #Mastodon has a free API so people can build their own!
I've seen sites that sort toots by the number of replies, boosts, and likes they get. That's fine but I want more
I want my timeline classified by #machineLearning; I want to create "buckets" and train the #algorithm to identify toots that belong in said buckets. Then I want to add or subtract these buckets from my timeline
๐คจ
This is how we do it: โThe #TikTok #algorithm figured out I was #gay before I didโ | Sex | The Guardian
> Katia was the first woman Evelyn had had sex with. Two years into their relationship, extended kissing sessions keep the sparks flying
What I absolutely love about #fediverse is the fact that, there is no #algorithm pushing my post to someone's timeline. The process of someone finding my post is very organic. They just stumbled upon the post at the right time. If the likes it they will favouriteโญ it, maybe even boost โ:boostrequest:โ it. And if they like me, will follow my account. In a way, it's kinda serendipitous. Rather romantic to think about it.
So enjoy the next like favourite or boost or follow, because that is a very 1 in a million event.
As usual, deep in the blurry spectrum between outright and intended utility (aka layout algorithm), dataviz (tree depth) and art. I love them all, and as so often, the extrema are just a tiny param change away from each other! Pushing toward art territory often a great way to uncover issues and debug an algorithm. E.g. I had originally issues with propagating size changes of nested cells back up to their parent/ancestors (solved now)...
(Ps. also a teaser for next #HowToThing... probably out tomorrow)
#GenerativeDesign #GenerativeArt #Layout #Algorithm #DebugArt #Grid #Dataviz #ThingUmbrella #TypeScript
The Algorithm is back
The Algorithm is not impressed
https://artologica.etsy.com
#art #watercolor #sciart #algorithm
Blood donation on social media? ๐ฉธ
Donor.ua, a Ukrainian system for recruiting and managing blood donors, solves many of the inefficiencies of blood donorship. It connects people willing to donate with those in need thanks to an #algorithm. But implementation proves difficult, and the ongoing war in #Ukraine is not the only reason.
Yevhenii Andriushchenko uncovers this story for @algorithmwatch โฌ๏ธ
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/algorithmic-blood-donations-ukraine/
YeahMad has taken over my youtube with offensive dad jokes. They clearly have broken youtube's algorithm.
New #Algorithm paintings! One of each, algorithm says ADD TO CART #watercolor #art
https://www.etsy.com/shop/artologica/?etsrc=sdt§ion_id=43235101
What is a plain English explanation of โBig Oโ notation? #algorithm https://stackoverflow.com/q/487258/1288
Man banned from advertising on Meta/Facebook for life for "trading animals" because the algorithm thought he was trading pythons and pandas. And no appeal possible. https://lerner.co.il/2023/10/19/im-banned-for-life-from-advertising-on-meta-because-i-teach-python/ #python #pandas #software #meta #advertising #algorithm
While doing something necessary, I accidentally searched for "Larping" on YouTube. *Don't judge. I was in a hurry.* You can imagine the result.
I feel that the #fediverse's lack of an #algorithm is *more* toxic than #Twitter; on #mastodon's #chronological timeline I feel like I'm missing out on important signal in the noise so I have to spend more time combing through it, exploring #hashtags, #following them, #mute words, build #lists, etc. With Twitter there were ads, but also there was all the best stuff since the last time you logged in, sorted by how interesting it would be to YOU! That was awesome; I miss that!
#data #datascience peeps, hear my cry!
Let's say there's a periodic process that I'm sampling. The period is changing slowly (<1% per cycle). I get a sample on a lot of the cycles, but not necessarily every one.
I'm sure I can bodge together an #algorithm to figure out the "fundamental period" and how it is changing over time, but I also bet something already exists.
What's my #search keyword?
โจ #DirectX12 #GPU #workgraphs change the way we implement algorithms on the GPU. โจ
Our latest #GPUOpen blog demonstrates its transformative impact on #algorithm design with a practical example, explaining step-by-step the syntax and API.
Have a read: https://gpuopen.com/learn/work_graphs_learning_sample/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=workgraphs
On #mastodon I missed my peeps from the bird site but soon found this much more interesting. With no #algorithm to send stuff my way, I followed lots of #hashtags. I follow several thousand people now. My feed is a river. Lately I have been using #lists and the result is that I can select Thinkers, Wary, BC, Cdnpol, USPol, MidEast, Books, Law, Libre Tech, Fediverse, Photos or any other list I build. When I browse a list I see the positive results of my home built algorithm. #fediverse
Everyone wonders why #Amazon's #recommendations #algorithm is so bad, but I will guarantee you that if they thought that making it good would make you buy more shit they'd have made it good by now.
I suspect that showing us the stuff we've already bought from them is a) actually effective or b) intentionally reminding us of all the shit we've bought from them like some kind of internal advertising.
Take on the role of an investigative journalist and try to crack the #algorithm. ๐
Play as a reporter who needs to find out if a popular social network is making teenagers sad in our new game.
Are you up for the challenge? ๐
https://algorithmwatch.github.io/can-you-break-the-algorithm/#/
Thanks to Deutsche Postcode Lotterie for helping us make this game happen.
Google changed its advertising auction formula in 2017, raising prices by 15% and likely making the company billions of dollars in additional revenue, according to an economist testifying for the US Justice Department in the antitrust case against the search giant.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-changed-ad-auctions-raising-191333390.html
It's fascinating how flawed the #games we played as kids were; #programming was primitive, and they couldn't do updates.
In #SuperMarioBros3 the card matching mini-game only has 8 different layouts because of a bug in the shuffling #algorithm
https://youtu.be/QGeLzCmUDDk?si=nwfDRrkCLYgPkUZ_
#nes #nintendo #gaming #videoGames #mario #marioBros #superMarioBros #programming #software #bugs @gaming
#UnitedHealthcare uses #naviHealth care mgmt bought in 2020 2 help make coverage decisions. Proprietary โnH Predictโ tool sifts thru M of #medicalrecords to match patients w similar #diagnoses & characteristics. Based on these comparisons #algorithm anticipates what kind of care specific patient will need, 4 how long and predicts patientโs date of discharge which coincides w insurer cuts off coverage even if the patient needs further treatment #Medicare would provide. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/biden-administration-software-algorithms-medicare-advantage/