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[–] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is (theoretically) a programmer forum. I use the programmer definition. By that definition, not having an algorithm is nonsense.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What if it uses a neural network to recommend posts?

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So how does that neural network perform that task? There I can see only two possible options:

  • magic
  • an algorithm
[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

A heuristic

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

Eh, please tell me how you'd implement a heuristic that doesn't work either through magic or an algorithm.