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how to optimise twitter for good ML research takes (or anything else)

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twitter, for all the hate it gets, is surprisingly useful — if used well. in particular, in the ML research community, it ends up being an important channel through which early results are disseminated, and through which researchers share their half-baked thoughts.

twitter, for all the hate it gets, is surprisingly useful — if used well. in particular, in the ML research community, it ends up being an important channel through which early results are disseminated, and through which researchers share their half-baked thoughts. (note that many other non-ML fields also have a strong twitter presence.) unfortunately, the default state of the twitter algorithm is to flood you with slop: cat photos and political rants. this leads to a less than ideal research-browsing experience. to get anything else, you have to explicitly teach twitter’s algorithm that…

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