Good morning, even to those who use feed algos. Cuz I sure don't.
Discussion
You use the following algo and the chronological feed algo.
okay, not that algorithm
Pfft. I never consider those algos, just chronological lists...
I just programmed them. They're algos.
Okay. That's a fair point.
The people hating on algorithms just want to sell you their preset algorithm.
We're going the opposite direction: build your own algorithm.
Including some selections from nostr:npub1fd0t73r8vn3nqezdg93fyj5x5u79zucf3jaspkc2dy9sjuqx5z8qftjal4
building your own is the holy grail!
i hope we can inspire some people to think a bit more about algorithms. the universe and everything in it is an algorithm. i'm not a simulation hypothesis guy. literally our brains do computation so we can only compute what our senses tell us. everything else is a gift from God or random garbage that is confusing.
also, i'm not saying that sorting algorithms are the most interesting things but my bug for algorithms started with learning the theory of sorting. the bubble sort is really simple and once you know it, you can use it to calculate the ordering of things. this has wide utility.
the bubble sort:
move from one item to the next in a fixed sequence
if the next item is smaller than the previous, swap them around.
repeat until you don't change the order of anything
A lot of people don't know this, but the Captain was one of the first people who worked on GitCitadel.
#funfact
back in my days of scatter brained nostr ideas!
And now they're getting implemented, as we're FINALLY building on #GitRepublic. It was on ice, for nearly a year, while we got #Alexandria going.
Feels good to get back to it. And the year helped us rethink the design, so it's gonna be way cooler than we originally planned. There's not anything like it on Nostr, yet.
LOL let's come up with a SuperAlgorithm for the selection and call it
The Captains' Chair
i recommend you investigate how sorting ALGORITHMS are implemented. yes, even sorting is an algorithm.
And there's the mute list algo and the bookmark algo and the relay selection algo and...
It's a computer program. They consistent entirely of data and algorithms. That's what programs _are_.
unfortunately, sifting through information is not something the state wants people to be good at because it might lead to them sifting through the information about the legitimacy of the state. so education about algorithms is poor, and mostly focused on being employed so you "do your part" for the "nation" even though a nation is a cluster of families and those people in charge are not related to any of us except as far as they have poisoned our bloodlines with their rape and seduction.
I'd rather not. I'm sure I'll learn when Stella and Michael start pulling their hair out in our dev chat when they dive into deeper search capabilities. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
well, it's actually kinda fun.
but i guess most people don't enjoy it.
i have a pile of coins from my change while shopping sitting on my desk in front of my computer. i enjoy sorting through the change i bring back and putting it into neat piles. maybe that is perverse, but idc
very nice. people often call them "heuristics" but heuristics are just a type of algorithm focused on recognition of patterns.
I'd compare that the current state of RSS and podcasts, usually only getting content from followed sources. sure it works, and that's worked fine for years, but isn't a big part of nostr about new ways of discovery?