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Tag: data starvation

  • Algorithms Scraping at the Bottom Of The Barrel

    Sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram etc are driven by algorithms. These algorithms are generally opaque, often intrusive (in terms of the automated decisions they are making based on what is often extremely personal data), and rarely revealed publicly in any real detail. What all of these obscure algorithms appear to have in common, however,…