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Google Ranking Algorithm Research Introduces TW-BERT

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Google announced a remarkable ranking framework called Term Weighting BERT (TW-BERT) that improves search results and is easy to deploy in existing ranking systems.

Although Google has not confirmed that it is using TW-BERT, this new framework is a breakthrough that improves ranking processes across the board, including in query expansion. It’s also easy to deploy, which in my opinion, makes it likelier to be in use.

TW-BERT has many co-authors, among them is Marc Najork, a Distinguished Research Scientist

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Asteroid-hunting algorithm detects its first ‘potentially hazardous’ space rock that is twice the size of the Statue of Liberty

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A new algorithm has detected a ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid in a breakthrough survey that could protect Earth from a world-destroying space rock.

Astronomers led by the University of Washington announced its system spotted a 600-foot-long asteroid, twice the size of the Statue of Liberty, using fewer and more dispersed observations than current methods. 

The algorithm, HelioLinc3D, scoured through space observations and identified 2022 SF289 on July 18, 2023 – initial images of the asteroid were captured on September 19, 2022,

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Facebook’s Algorithm Is ‘Influential’ but Doesn’t Necessarily Change Beliefs, Researchers Say

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The algorithms powering Facebook and Instagram, which drive what billions of people see on the social networks, have been in the cross hairs of lawmakers, activists and regulators for years. Many have called for the algorithms to be abolished to stem the spread of viral misinformation and to prevent the inflammation of political divisions.

But four new studies published on Thursday — including one that examined the data of 208 million Americans who used Facebook in the 2020 presidential election

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How The Twitter Algorithm Affects Users And Advertisers

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Twitter recently released its algorithm source code on GitHub, which was met with debate and controversy.

The release comes to increase transparency and give users a chance to offer feedback on how content is allegedly curated.

How Do Social Networks Generate Revenue And Why It Matters?

Social media companies generate revenue primarily from advertising, as shown in recent quarterly financial earnings reports from Twitter ($1.18 billion), YouTube Ads ($8.6 billion), and Meta ($32.2 billion).

Ad publishers charge advertisers based on

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Is This Google’s Helpful Content Algorithm?

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Google published a groundbreaking research paper about identifying page quality with AI. The details of the algorithm seem remarkably similar to what the helpful content algorithm is known to do.

Google Doesn’t Identify Algorithm Technologies

Nobody outside of Google can say with certainty that this research paper is the basis of the helpful content signal.

Google generally does not identify the underlying technology of its various algorithms such as the Penguin, Panda or SpamBrain algorithms.

So one can’t say with

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Computers May Have Cracked the Code to Diagnosing Sepsis

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This article was originally published in Undark Magazine.

Ten years ago, 12-year-old Rory Staunton dove for a ball in gym class and scraped his arm. He woke up the next day with a 104-degree Fahrenheit fever, so his parents took him to the pediatrician and eventually the emergency room. It was just the stomach flu, they were told. Three days later, Rory died of sepsis after bacteria from the scrape infiltrated his blood and triggered organ failure.

“How does that

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Before YouTube’s Algorithm, There Were ‘Coolhunters’

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Everyone had to see this. It was early 2007 when Sadia Harper called her YouTube co-workers to her desk to watch. On her screen, a preteen with a buzz cut and an oversize dress shirt was belting out an Alicia Keys song. “This kid is amazing,” Harper said. The singer’s mother had been badgering her with emails to feature her son, Justin Bieber, on YouTube’s homepage.

Harper was one of YouTube’s “coolhunters,” a team once tasked with curating videos on

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A Complete Guide To the Google Penguin Algorithm Update

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Ten years have passed since Google introduced the Penguin algorithm and took a stronger stance on manipulative link-building practices.

The algorithm has had a number of updates and has become a real-time part of the core Google algorithm, and as a result, penalties have become less common, but still exist both in partial and site-wide format.

 Screenshot by author, May 2022

For the most part, Google claims to ignore a lot of poor-quality links online, but is still alert and

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„Algorithm Queen“: Die Roboterkünstlerin Ai-Da erstellt anlässlich des Platin-Jubiläums ein Porträt von Elizabeth II

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Ein Roboterkünstler hat anlässlich des Platinjubiläums der Monarchin ein unheimliches neues Porträt von Königin Elizabeth II. geschaffen.

Das Porträt mit dem Titel „Algorithm Queen“ wurde von Ai-Da gemalt, der humanoiden Roboterkünstlerin, die 2019 von Galeriedirektor Aidan Meller geschaffen wurde.

Ai-Da verwendet Kameras in ihren Augen und Computeralgorithmen, um menschliche Merkmale zu verarbeiten und das, was sie „sieht“, in Koordinaten umzuwandeln.

Anschließend verwendet sie diese Koordinaten, um einen virtuellen Pfad für ihren Roboterarm zu berechnen, während er auf Leinwand zeichnet und

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