Developers inevitably work to a deadline and try different approaches, which can result in artifacts left over in the code. Even if artifacts aren't refactored, developers should still want to go back ...

The people at DeepMind took the same approach as they had with chess and Go: They turned code optimization into a game.The AlphaDev system developed x86 assembly algorithms that treated the ...

In the code released last week, Musk’s name appears, seemingly confirming reports that he had pressured engineers into creating a special system to have the algorithm prioritize his tweets.

Twitter has taken its algorithm for recommending tweets “open source,” as CEO Elon Musk has been been promising to do for months. I’ve seen the code. Skip to main content ...

As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code to public inspection, including the algorithm it uses to recommend tweets in users’ timelines. On ...

Racist Algorithms: How Code Is Written Can Reinforce Systemic Racism. ... For example, in August, four Black girls in Aurora, Colorado, one of whom was just six years old, ...

In fact, Bauer admitted they used a “strikes plus one” code in that 2019 game, and the code gave our algorithm a little trouble at first. As soon as we included the count as an input, though ...

This got me thinking about how Google’s algorithms work together now, how they will work together moving forward, and how this understanding can help you optimize your websites for the future.

See, Pinterest is far from the only site on which computer code decides what content you see and what you do not. And on sites like Google or Facebook, now the primary news source for people under ...