The Graph

60 YouTube channels that will make you smarter

Time is finite. Social media and Netflix can all too easily swallow our…

Applying deep learning to Related Pins

By Kevin Ma | Pinterest engineer, Discovery

One of the most popular ways people find ideas on Pinterest is through Related Pins, an item-to-item recommendations system that uses collaborative filtering. Previously, candidates were…

A Closer Look: Facebook over-estimates reach by dramatic numbers

Algorithms as the villains and heroes of the ‘post-truth’ era

The profile of algorithms has grown in line with the emergence of notions of a so called ‘post-truth’ era. We often focus on the negative or…

Search vs Discovery

Search is great — if you know what you are looking for.

Journalists, editors and publishers, let’s not squander the gift of Donald Trump

Let’s talk about numbers

A few numbers in the world are finite. We only have 24 hours in a day. Assuming you live for 75 years that’s about…