«If we talk
about the algorithms of facial recognition, they greatly improve the quality of services and life in general,» Kuharenko says.
Not exact matches
It's no coincidence that during that same period, Google gained
about $ 40 billion in ad revenue, thanks to the development
of «programmatic» ad markets, where ads are bought and sold by
algorithms.
If there's one misconception Peter Friedlander, vice-president
of original production at Netflix, can't stand
about his company, it's that its content is entirely governed by
algorithms.
Think
about this for a moment: Google rolls out a new
algorithm, the largest single change since 2001, and adds nothing to prevent smart and sly webmasters from taking advantage
of it.
Recently, the company did implement new
algorithms that can limit the accounts
of users who show a pattern
of abuse, something that is not exactly an A.I. And, they've talked
about using IBM Watson to help, but that's not exactly developing the A.I. in house.
What Facebook might be willing to do, however, is to talk a bit more
about this problem and potential solutions for it, instead
of relying on the
algorithm or its own secret internal processes to take care
of it.
«The fact that they have 80 percent
of search revenues speaks more
about the superiority
of their search
algorithm,
of their search results and
of their relevancy to the advertisers than anything else.»
There's the influence
of the news - feed
algorithm, for one thing, which is poorly understood — primarily because the company doesn't really talk
about how it works.
New York magazine made a similar case in a recent post, saying tens
of millions
of Facebook users «were served up or shared emotionally charged news stories
about the candidates, because Facebook's sorting
algorithm understood from experience that they were seeking such stories.»
VW acknowledges that it installed a cheating
algorithm in each car that takes in reams
of data —
about atmospheric pressure, how the car was being steered, how fast it was going and how far — then determines whether the vehicle is being tested by regulators or driven in the real world, applying emissions controls accordingly.
«We do have an
algorithm that highlights the most useful and reliable reviews on our site which is
about 75 percent
of contributed content.»
A sharp price move coupled with high volume often prompts speculation
about the influence
of high frequency trading, when computer
algorithms are used to trade stocks at an extremely rapid pace.
One
of the engineers on the project wrote a blog post
about the lessons learned; another was able to explore some complex color selection
algorithms, an area
of particular interest to her.
The word «penalty» gets thrown around often as a way to describe a sudden loss
of search engine rank, but there is an important distinction between manual penalties specifically created to target a domain and the automatic search rank drops that come
about as a result
of an
algorithm update.
There's a joint CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission report that came out a few months after the flash crash that blames it on an effort by Waddell & Reed to sell some E-mini futures with an inept
algorithm; lots
of people have long had their doubts
about that theory, and now the CFTC itself seems to have abandoned it in favor
of the new one - guy - in - London theory.
One
of the biggest complaints
about Facebook — and its all - powerful News Feed
algorithm — is that the social network often shows you posts supporting beliefs or ideas you (probably) already have.
Once, such hype might have targeted the uninitiated, but these days, an increasing number
of stock trades are driven by computers making split - second decisions
about when to buy or sell — often by using sophisticated
algorithms to monitor price changes and the flow
of news on mainstream outlets and social media.
Cardano uses a new
algorithm for proof
of stake called Ouroboros, which determines how individual nodes reach consensus
about the network.
Responding to a timely question
about the growing popularity
of NEO in China, and how the functionality
of Ethereum measures up in comparison, Buterin emphasized that Ethereum will «be optionally quantum - proof with EIP 86 and Casper because it will support any signature
algorithm that the user wants to use.»
In a blog post, researcher Janelle Shane wrote
about some
of the unconventional answers she's seen
algorithms come up with when they're asked to teach themselves.
So far, 2018 has been a roller coaster ride
of industry shifts for publishers, kicked off by Facebook's sweeping
algorithm change that left brands wondering
about the future
of traffic growth and monetization on social.
Before you can fully understand the impact
of each individual search
algorithm update, you need to have a working knowledge
of what a search engine
algorithm is all
about.
The reason is simple: Individuals and Pages are pushing a lot
of posts into people's news feeds, so Facebook's news - feed
algorithm has needed to get proportionally more stringent
about picking out the posts that someone would most like to see and that would most likely keep them coming back to check Facebook regularly.
Mueller elaborated on his answer, saying that Google does take links into consideration as part
of its ranking
algorithm, but that building links directly isn't the right way to go
about it.
You'll learn
about industry conferences, the SEO value
of press releases, SEO penalties, significant Google
algorithm updates, co-citation, co-occurrence, and other advanced SEO concepts.
This all due to their «proprietary
algorithm» so that its users can make money from binary options regardless
of whether they actually know anything
about binary options trading or not!
As Google has become more serious
about handing out penalties and making drastic
algorithm changes like the Panda update and the Penguin update that punish sites that publish poor content and use outdated and black hat SEO tactics, a number
of websites have been affected.
Not a lot
of detail is provided
about what specific types
of bad stuff will be targeted, aside from the usual suspects, but the examples shown indicate the
algorithms are getting much more sophisticated at identifying intent and meaning
of verbiage.
Particularly with the recent changes to Facebook's Newsfeed
Algorithm and their statements
about marketers needing to pay for traffic, the ad free environment
of Google + is a breath
of fresh air.
Equihash, the Proof -
of - Work (PoW) mining
algorithm used by Zcash and a variety
of other cryptocurrencies, is
about to get a lot less equitable.
But regardless
of whether Google truly incorporates this factor into its
algorithm, outbound links do help Google crawlers discern what the site to which you're linking is
about.
Yes, Google's
algorithm will reward you for writing
about a news item first, but wouldn't you like to get that extra little organic boost because you chose to target a variation
of your keyword phrase with higher search volume?
With the recent Panda and Penguin
algorithm updates Google has pushed out, now more than ever before you must think
about the purpose
of each link and pay close attention to the links you receive.
«The longer you stay on the page and the more processor power you donate, the more
algorithms get solved, which earns cryptocurrency... If you're ever worried
about power consumption, simply turn down the amount
of processing power you're donating.
Facebook board member Reed Hastings offered his first public comments on the scandal that has gripped Facebook over the last month — and cast the concerns
about Facebook's
algorithms and data as part
of how any young company matures over time.
But a computer
algorithm doesn't care
about any
of that and since it's owner is compensated strictly on a fraction
of a percent
of your total portfolio it's interests are perfectly aligned with yours!
In a week where much
of the Internet was all atwitter
about Mobilegeddon, Google's pre-announced
algorithm change that will favor mobile - friendly sites in mobile search results, a potentially far more impactful announcement was much more
of a surprise: Facebook is tweaking the News Feed
algorithm.
At the conference I met Dr. Kathryn Applegate, who has spent a lot
of time thinking
about this issue and who looks way too young to have developed computer vision
algorithms to measure the remodeling activity
of the cell's cytoskeleton.
Knowledge
of time, modulated by the cerebellum, basal ganglia and primary somatosensory cortex, would also input to the pacing
algorithm as would information stored in memory
about previous similar exercise bouts.
Hint: there's something quirky
about Google Adsense's
algorithm that actually makes the ad even more relevant, thus visible to web surfers when lots
of people click on it, making the manoeuver counter-productive over time.
For those interested in that follow - up, I will be leading a webinar for ActionSprout the first week
of June (exact dates to be announced shortly) specifically to talk
about Algorithm changes.
Taking recent election as an example, we could have 185 CDU - leaning and - endorsed independents, but CDU would also win an insane number
of party list seats (
about 200, not sure
about precise
algorithm calculating «compensations»).
But Wylie has been outspoken
about how Cambridge Analytica — a company he helped build, according to a profile in the Guardian — planned to use the Facebook users» data and an
algorithm to build «psychographic» profiles that could be used to predict the political leanings
of every potential American voter.
What we are clear on is something we had been warned
about: give an
algorithm a load
of data
about ourselves, and in return it assumes power over our lives.
He said that there are a lot
of misconceptions
about his employer, and that he's had a few awkward conversations in which he's had to basically explain that his job — developing
algorithms to analyze data
about phenotypes and genetics — is not tantamount to throwing baby bunnies into a wood chipper.
The tests
of the new
algorithm show, he noted, that SASMEX would have been able to speed up its alert for the Morelos earthquake, «giving
about eight to ten seconds
of warning in Mexico City.»
These
algorithms are criminal recidivism predictors, which use personal information
about defendants — like family and employment history — to assess that person's likelihood
of committing future crimes.
«Alan would discuss maybe how [a new
algorithm] would impact his work, or he would talk
about his experiences
of using a similar
algorithm, and he helped me understand.
For each pair
of successive images, the
algorithm generates multiple hypotheses
about which objects in one correspond to which objects in the other.
A green heat map overlaid on one
of these images (right) highlights the areas
of the image — most notably the blood vessels — that factor most heavily into the
algorithm's prediction
about that patient's blood pressure.