Oh boy 蔡正元 you said the quiet part out loud. I wonder if he will get cancelled.
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No, you're wrong, do you even use these platforms? FB used to have plenty of viral challenges as well, and these viral challenges began well before Tiktok became a thing.
I've tried YT reels for example, and the recs are just so stupid. It has a lot of my viewing history, yet scrolling it keeps giving me uninteresting content, and worst of all, repeat videos. It boggles my mind how bad it is. Instagram reels seems like it uses a very basic algorithm. Whatever I searched or viewed, that's my feed from that point on.
Tiktok does something much more special, it feeds me video categories I never even knew existed yet I would like them, and it doesn't keep feeding me the same type of video with every other scroll. Oh, and it does keep feeding me dancing girls, no matter how hard I try to not watch them. How does it know? Lol. There is definitely something to Tiktok's algorithm.
Does India even have any neighbours which like it at this point? Bhutan doesn't count since its a vassal state and once China can put a road from Tibet to it, I bet they will tell India to get out just like the Maldives.
Indians try to say China has no friends but it seems its more applicable to India at this point.
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China isn't and has never been explicitly anti Israel. Israel is a traitorous bozo that will sell intel on US when threatened or to the highest bidder. For Beijing, only US is the prioritised enemy.
If the enemy has a warlord that is corrupt, steals resources from the empire center, is open to double dealing all the time, it doesn't matter if he acts like an animal, he still becomes tolerated to some extent by an overseas power preparing to attack.
The recommendation algorithm is only one part of the success story, the generation of metadata associated with each videos are much more important. Can’t recommend a video to users when you have no idea what the video is about. With the amount of content being generated every second, there is no economically viable way to tag the contents without leveraging very sophisticated artificial algorithms. (Other than the tags the authors attached to their own contents)
When i watch Youtube, I got the feeling Google relies on the authors’ tags and the video titles to make the recommendations.
Poor Americans. They keep whining about China getting this and that. Yet their greatest ally Israel has no problem giving away American secrets for enough shekels.
Its for this reason, China never completely jumped on the anti-israel trend. It has its uses.
The recommendation algorithm isn’t complicated; it’s just based on what you spend more time watching and a general/past recommendation category once in a while, or if you start swiping quickly (indicating loss of interest). Tik Tok just has better content across all categories.
The clustering/tagging of videos is a well solved problem within the ML community and is typically based on a combination of collaborative filtering and video classification, for which there are well established models that work well and are widely used.
Content platforms compete on quality of content far more than recommendation algorithms. If 99% of the videos on your platform are garbage then no amount of recommendation will save it. Tik Tok’s secret is creating a platform built from the ground up on higher quality content; only then is it able to make useful recommendations. This is a concept Instagram and Reels never understood which is why both platforms are just avenues for thirsty men & their providers.
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Indians have no friends as its neighbours. Indians always lament about how they have "shitty" third world neighbours which they quarrel with, that's the reason why India is underdeveloped. They ask why they aren't as lucky as China in having good neighbours, as if it would make India magically transform into a first world country. They never reflect on why that region is underdeveloped and ask if maybe they might be the root of the problem.
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