Mastodawn

Matt Blaze Nov 25, 2022

Stop saying there are no algorithms. Algorithms don't necessarily involve opaque machine learning-driven decisions. Showing posts in chronological order is an algorithm. Showing a partial ordering of posts coming in from other nodes in a federated distributed system is an algorithm. Anything involving computers uses algorithms.

Even if you can predict what it does, there's an algorithm. ESPECIALLY if you can predict what it does.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

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Robotistry

@mattblaze
Is it wrong that I find it amusing that so many people seem to have entirely missed the CW and are trying to explain to you that you're dying on a pedantic hill?

I always use "AI model" or "ML model" when I'm talking about a machine learning algorithm, because I spent so much time writing non-ML behavior algorithms for autonomous robots.