[openquery]

I've always wondered - how can I as a non X engineer be sure that the code on GH is actually deployed on their servers?

[ml-anon]

It’s not. The last “algorithm” release was a random grab bag of code which existed in some of the Twitter repo that might have been tangentially related to recommendations/feed.

Source: worked at Twitter in ML/recsys.

[TheAceOfHearts]

Anon, when I was looking through this source dump I saw a huge range of timeouts used in various services, do you know if there's any writeup or explanation as to how the engineering team settled on those values?

[random3]

I don’t think that’s the point of open sourcing things, in general

[openquery]

I agree in general it isn't. But in this case Musk claimed that was the point of open-sourcing the algorithm. Transparency on what they are or are not suppressing.

[cma]

When Tesla "open sourced" their patents, they required companies taking them up on it to, not reciprocally, not copy their "designs". So you get access to their patents in exchange for vague restrictions broader than the patent or copyright system.

[random3]

Oh, I see. Well, purely on his claim:bs ratio, I'd too take than with a grain of salt :)

[h1fra]

you can't, and it's 100% sure it's not this code running in prod

[jjordan]

100% huh? That's a bold statement with no supporting evidence.

[viraptor]

Already posted above: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/c54bec0d4e029f...

It's redacted.

[jibal]

Claiming that there's no supporting evidence is a bold (and obviously false) claim when the code is 2 years old and heavily redacted.

[Pxtl]

Sounds like the right tone when discussing a Musk project.

[gchamonlive]

How can you be sure that the machine code that was generated from your C source files actually match the behaviour encoded in them?

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...