icedrift

icedrift t1_j1bphdl wrote

Pretty much where I stand on the matter. Like yeah, bots are everywhere and undeniably are used in an attempt to manipulate public opinion, but Occam's razor comes first. AI terms have been blowing up on google trends these past few months there's no big conspiracy to 1984 your opinion of AI lmao.

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icedrift t1_j1bop1b wrote

Well it did make you post. These systems aren't exactly looking ahead they just want the max amount of engagement at any given time.

As for that edit they don't push the most popular posts they push posts that have the highest change of retaining your attention. At many social media sites (maybe reddit but idk), those recommendations are unique to each user based on the absurd amount of data they collect. Only a few engineers at reddit would know for sure.

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icedrift t1_j1bmdzb wrote

Congratulations! you've just discovered **Algorithmic Recommendation Systems**. Behind the scenes, Reddit and every other social media website takes note of the rate of engagement and recommends only the most likely posts to get you to interact. Considering this topic got you to make your first ever post to this sub, I'd consider those algorithms a success.

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icedrift t1_j12m507 wrote

>why does there need to be a handshake at all? Why can't Bob send 1000 packets, each annotated with a sequence from 1000-2000, and at the end sends a "closing packet" saying "just ended sending you seq 1000-2000, tell me if you missed any and then I'll retransmit"?

The handshake is necessary to verify incoming packets are coming from the correct source. If Alice just asks Bob for data without establishing a handshake she has no garuntee that Bob ever got the request or that the response isn't coming from a malicious third party. UDP technically doesn't have a handshake built into it's protocol but any streaming service that uses UDP implements their own handshake in the application layer.

>Why can't we just do:Alice sends sequence number and Bob sends sequence number back? What failure case does the third ACK prevents from happening? A comparisonor example between how a 2 way would be different from a 3 way would be great, but I can't find any online.

The final ack of the three way handshake tells the server that the client is ready to receive data. Without it the server wouldn't know when the client is ready to receive data.

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icedrift t1_j0xtogq wrote

Research can only go so far in the social sciences. There is no definitive answer. Having said that, looking at the rust belt it probably one of the best recent examples of mass replacement via uncompetitive labor markets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt

The answer seems to be that yes, the invisible hand won't magically create new jobs in a free market, government investment into propping up new industries is necessary.

The question is can government keep up with the coming replacement.

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