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Comment by shrimpx

I don't understand the concept of open-sourcing "the algorithm".

First of all, "the algorithm" is probably hundreds of thousands of lines of code, including all the tedious boilerplate like cache policies and multi-AZ logic.

And second of all, doesn't the algorithm include machine learning components, which are trained on terabytes of data? That data will likely be impossible to open source. And open sourcing the neural nets without the training data is mostly meaningless from a transparency perspective?

parent shrimpx 4 years ago

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