@haliphax @lisamelton @karlhigley I think to most people "the algorithm" means something that digs up the most popular posts across a specific social media and jams it into your feed. So you "are part of the global conversation". It sucks and selects for lowest common denominators (which is often US centric). Additionally, it typically optimises for engagement rather than enjoyment.

@haliphax @lisamelton @karlhigley
You can already have this with Lists. A list for sleep posters, a list for low volume posters. Clients can implement features to automatically create these kinds of lists for you without any change to how Mastodon servers work. Maybe it already exists

@pmakholm @svuorela @Koefoed @CiaraNi Folk får vist ikke tjekket postkassen så ofte. Eller måske roder der lidt derhjemme.

@internetsdairy Oh, you liked it so I went ahead. Like sounds like yes to me.

@internetsdairy Okay. I'm gonna summon @folfdk and @iris
My example is going to be the transform of time. Say we have some data on when things happen during the day. If something happens approximately at midnight then it will appear both around the maximum and minimum value of time. But we can do a cos and sin transform of what time it is with a 24 hour frequency and that makes it much easier to reason about. We can continue with 12, 6, 3 hour frequency indefinitely.

@internetsdairy Do you want input from random Mastodonians?

@internetsdairy I did stuff with Fourier transforms for years without understanding them. Maybe it's kinda like a Taylor series but better? This was 3D proteins and stuff btw.

@grimalkina I have a wonderful image in my mind of you with a tour guide hat and flag on a stick, showing psychologists around a conference. Half tour guide half David Attenborough maybe.

@tanyakaroli Pommes frites da jeg var meget lille

@folfdk Undskyld. Men... er det en spoiler? Undgå traileren dog. Tror jeg. Jeg har ikke set traileren. Og det var ikke en ultra centrifuge, den burde ikke eksplodere eller noget. Bare dårlig praksis.

HE DIDN'T BALANCE THE CENTRIFUGE!
Apart from that I really enjoyed Project Hail Mary.

@jonassmith I'm pretty sure that SMK's konteringsmodel comes from your bogholderi and not the software itself.

@Herover Gi' mig Danmark tilbage
Og så må der også være nogle Trille-sange, f.eks. Øjet.

@andreasio @tokeriis Ja, boligejerne bliver generelt bedre behandlet af de danske politikere. Men jeg synes stadig andelsboliger er meget bedre end lejeboliger.

@daniel @folfdk Jeg har slet ikke fået suspend til at virke på Mint men jeg har heller ikke brugt så meget energi på det.

@luc0x61 @lzg You realise that you are making it sound like you abuse 12 year old girls, right? This is obviously a post about Cesar whatever his name is.

@bettina @madsenandersc @cryptohagen Den fantastiske kodeviser hvor man må håbe på at der er et tal man ikke kan vende på hovedet når man bruger den.

@voss @jeppe @anderslund @folkefoderation @ideer-og-tiltag Hmm, når jeg slår AT Protocol op på Wikipedia og kigger under adoption så ser jeg kun Bluesky og tre forskellige bridges til Mastodon. Jeg har også læst en tråd på Mastodon om nogen der forsøgte at sætte en server op totalt uden succes.
Er jeg gået glip af noget? Hvem bruger ATproto?