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Tired of irrelevant content? Here's how to control suggested posts on Instagram

Instagram has evolved far beyond a simple photo-sharing app. Today, it serves as a hub for entertainment, news, tutorials, ...
FinanceFeeds

Crypto Machine Learning Algorithms Explained for Beginners

Supervised learning algorithms like Random Forests, XGBoost, and LSTMs dominate crypto trading by predicting price directions ...
TechCrunch

Instagram’s new ‘Your Algorithm’ tool gives you more control over the Reels you see

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...
Science Daily

How personalized algorithms trick your brain into wrong answers

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...
Wired

Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.
Reuters

Google says it has developed landmark quantum computing algorithm

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Google said it has developed a computer algorithm that points the way to practical applications for quantum computing and will be able to generate unique data for use ...
Ars Technica

Google has a useful quantum algorithm that outperforms a supercomputer

A few years back, Google made waves when it claimed that some of its hardware had achieved quantum supremacy, performing operations that would be effectively impossible to simulate on a classical ...
Nature

AI discovers learning algorithm that outperforms those designed by humans

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...
TechCrunch

Facebook updates its algorithm to give users more control over which videos they see

Meta announced on Tuesday a new Facebook algorithm update that will showcase more Reels videos tailored to users’ preferences. The update includes features that offer users greater control over the ...
The Conversation

As the status quo shifts, we’re becoming more forgiving when algorithms mess up

Hamza Tariq has received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council (NSERC) of Canada. University of Waterloo provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University ...
Los Angeles Times

How the TikTok algorithm created new words like ‘unalive’

Adam Aleksic has somehow managed to make linguistics cool. His rapid-fire videos have attracted an audience of millions across the social media universe. A Harvard graduate with a linguistics degree, ...