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Erosis t1_jegj2l9 wrote

Reply to comment by Educational-Net303 in [News] Twitter algorithm now open source by John-The-Bomb-2

Twitter is already established as a brand to near saturation and Elon has more money than god. It's the perfect combo for ML philanthropy. Now waiting for that Tesla vision algorithm...

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FinancialElephant t1_jeh33j9 wrote

Most infrastructure code like computer vision code, device drivers, etc are either not culturally relevant or have little cultural relevance.

I don't think it makes any sense to prioritize them when things like twitter have much more direct cultural impact. It would be great if my network card driver was open source, but does it really matter? Is it worth prioritizing? Will it likely have any cultural relevance? To most people the answer to all these questions is no.

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