nytimes.com

Here’s a homemade version of the Codebreaker algorithm — and how to break it

You, too, can be a state-of-the-art sign-stealer. You can play along at home and download The Athletic’s homemade version of the sign-cracking algorithm, while we ...
BleepingComputer

Twitter open-sources recommendation algorithm code

Twitter announced on Friday that it's open-sourcing the code behind the recommendation algorithm the platform uses to select the contents of the users' For You timeline. However, the code made public ...
Yahoo Finance

Elon Musk’s open source Twitter code is ‘completely dishonest’ and akin to misinformation because it lacks vital data to understand it, say critics

Elon Musk stayed true to his word. As the clock struck Noon on Friday, the renegade CEO revealed portions of Twitter's proprietary algorithm. The algorithm, which is basically the formula that decides ...
Ars Technica

AI system devises first optimizations to sorting code in over a decade

Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending order ...
Wired

Twitter’s Open Source Algorithm Is a Red Herring

Brandi Geurkink is a senior policy fellow at Mozilla. She is the creator of YouTubeRegrets, the largest-ever crowdsourced investigation into YouTube’s recommendation engine and its impact on society.