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12 votes
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Making bracket pair colorization 10k times faster in VSCode
7 votes -
A deeper look into how YouTube’s recommendation system works
14 votes -
Alt-F4 #47 - Calculating and optimizing recipe solutions in Factorio
4 votes -
There is no algorithm for truth (presentation by Tom Scott)
7 votes -
YouTube Regrets - A crowdsourced investigation into YouTube's recommendation algorithm, using data volunteered by 37,000 users via a browser extension
20 votes -
I’m scared of the person TikTok thinks I am
8 votes -
Heat List - Chicago PD automated policing program got this man shot twice
10 votes -
What3Words - The algorithm used to generate its geocodes, and issues with it that result in ambiguous locations being common
11 votes -
Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks
3 votes -
I called off my wedding. The internet will never forget
24 votes -
Are we automating racism?
3 votes -
Building a dystopia to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci
12 votes -
Do you prefer to hand-pick the music you listen to, or rely on curators/algorithms to decide?
The comments in the Spotify patent thread about their crappy recommendations got me thinking about this. Gonna leave my own answer as a comment below.
19 votes -
To guarantee privacy, focus on the algorithms, not the data
6 votes -
Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail; recommends outdated security algorithms
13 votes -
YouTubecore: The old, ambient, largely-Japanese music that's become a smash hit on YouTube with the help of its discoverability algorithms
15 votes -
Spotify announces that artists and labels will be able to select specific tracks for its algorithms to prioritize in exchange for being paid a lower royalty rate
21 votes -
Redblob games - A site with various game-related algorithm descriptions
16 votes -
Nvidia replaced video codecs with a neural network
18 votes -
I was wrong. CRDTs are the future
9 votes -
Twitter to investigate apparent racial bias in photo previews
8 votes -
Smartphone cameras can now detect diabetes with 80% accuracy
5 votes -
Innovative AI physical motion capture and dynamic regeneration algorithm
5 votes -
TikTok and the Sorting Hat - TikTok's algorithm is so good at organizing users into subcultures that it was able to skip the awkward early phases of new social media
11 votes -
Uber, Lyft algorithms charged users more for trips to non-white US neighborhoods: study
7 votes -
Wrongfully accused by an algorithm
7 votes -
Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback
6 votes -
Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past
5 votes -
Humble Book Bundle: Software Development by O'Reilly
8 votes -
SVT-AV1, an open-source AV1 video encoder and decoder developed by Intel and Netflix
11 votes -
Suckers list: How Allstate’s secret auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders in the US
7 votes -
An algorithm was taken to court – and it lost (which is great news for the welfare state)
7 votes -
How NIST tested facial recognition algorithms for racial bias
5 votes -
NIST study evaluates effects of race, age, sex on face recognition software - Findings included that many algorithms had false positive rates 10 to 100 times higher for non-Caucasians
7 votes -
Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points
12 votes -
O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation
10 votes -
In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track [Uighurs] members of a largely Muslim minority group
13 votes -
Like This Or Die - The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm
4 votes -
“Affordances” - A new science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow about algorithmic bias
7 votes -
"Facebook is wrong and I have receipts"—Jedd Legum provides proof Daily Wire is gaming Facebook's algorithm
@juddlegum: 1. UPDATE: So in response to my report that The Daily Wire is gaming Facebook with a network of 14 large pages Facebook released a new statement. Facebook says these are "real pages run by real people" Facebook is wrong and I have receipts https://t.co/z5s3LsOMm3
11 votes -
There is no algorithm for truth
16 votes -
In a new report, Penn State political scientists suggest that radicalization on YouTube is driven by communities that form around right-wing content more than the recommendation engine
11 votes -
Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations
6 votes -
Digital dystopia: How algorithms punish the poor
11 votes -
Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands
19 votes -
Programming Challenge: Convert between units
Hi everyone! It's been a long time since last programming challenge list, and here's a nice one I've encountered. If you search for something like 7km to AU, you'll get your answer. But how is it...
Hi everyone! It's been a long time since last programming challenge list, and here's a nice one I've encountered.
If you search for something like 7km to AU, you'll get your answer. But how is it done? I don't think they hardcoded all 23 units of distance and every conversion factor between them.
If you were programming a conversion system - how would you do it?
First of all, you have input in format that you can specify, for example something like this:
meter kilometer 1000 mile kilometer 1.609344 second minute 60 ...
Then you should be able answer queries. For example
7 mile meter
should convert 7 miles to meters, which is11265.41
.Can you design an algorithm that will convert any unit into any other unit?
Edit: Some conversion rates I extracted from wikipedia:
ångström 0.1nm astronomical unit 149597870700m attometre 0.000000000000000001m barleycorn 8.4m bohr 0.00846 cable length (imperial) 185.3184m cable length 185.2m cable length (US) 219.456m chain (Gunters) 20.11684m cubit 0.5m ell 1.143m fathom 1.8288m femtometre 0.00000000000001m fermi 0.00000000000001m finger 0.022225m finger (cloth) 0.1143m foot (Benoit) 0.304799735m foot (Cape) (H) 0.314858m foot (Clarke's) (H) 0.3047972654m foot (Indian) (H) 0.304799514m foot,metric 0.31622776602m foot,metric (long) 0.3m foot,metric (short) 0.30m foot (International) 0.3048m foot (Sear's) (H) 0.30479947m foot (US Survey) 0.304800610 french 0.0003m furlong 201.168m hand 0.1016m inch 0.0254m league 4828m light-day 25902068371200m light-hour 107925284880m light-minute 17987547480 light-second 299792458m light-year 31557600light-second line 0.002116m link (Gunter's) 0.2011684m link (Ramsden's; Engineer's) 0.3048m metre 1m m 1metre km 1000m mickey 0.000127 micrometre 0.000001 mil; thou 0.0000254 mil 10km mile (geographical) 6082foot (International) quarter 0.2286m rod 5.0292m rope 6.096m shaku 0.303 0303m span (H) 0.2286m stick (H) 0.0508m toise 1.949 0363m twip 1.76310 yard 0.9144m
17 votes -
Flawed algorithms are grading millions of students’ essays
13 votes -
How to cover 11,250 elections at once: Here’s how The Washington Post’s new computational journalism lab will tackle 2020
9 votes -
'ContraPoints' host says YouTube algorithm isn't 'sophisticated' enough to counter extremist content
16 votes