Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Fascinating Algorithm

Is it just me or is there something wrong with this picture, taken from my actual Google News feed?:


Your challenge is to come up with an explanation for how this is coverage that is related to this.  Is it just a randomizer gone amok?  Or is "river" somehow being metaphorically considered a "shape of water"?   Is the missing Oscar nomination for visual effects for del Toro's film being conflated with the missing wife?  From experience, and given that an algorithm is The Rationalization for how a computer program behaves, I believe there is a reason for the relation, however tortured from a human perspective.  Little flaws like this stand in pretty stark contrast to the bulk of article relations on Google News which in my experience tend to be pretty spot on.  In case it's not obvious, I have not seen the movie, but if its plot is echoed in the story of the missing woman and Google News has drawn an inference about the articles' connectivity based on that, color me impressed.

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