#consensus-algorithm
consensus-based congressional algorithm has major flaw, system is deadlocked
February 8, 2024 at 3:23 AM
(Entertainment news 2024)

“NEW SHOWBIZ CONSENSUS: twenty rightwing comedians fame-pushed by billionaire algorithm botfarms are advocating for a fresh new dystopian police state that must be hip, edgy and overdue if these badboy funnymen are saying so”
February 4, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Interactive visualisation of the Raft consensus algorithm, linked with the pseudocode from my lectures — looks amazing!
September 2, 2026 at 8:36 PM
The way you would engineer a similar phenomenon to the Stacked Panel technique using control of a social media algorithm to produce false consensus in your audience I think would be pretty obvious.
September 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The overwhelming consensus among the people I encountered during my visit was that separatists are a small but loud minority, fuelled by the algorithm on one particular social media platform (along with a large helping of foreign interference) that is bending reality into something unrecognizable.
I just spent a week in my home province of Alberta, went to dinners, visited friends, attended a surprise birthday party. In my time here (which was mostly in Calgary and Edmonton), I didn’t meet anyone in favour of separation. I’m a proud Albertan and Canadian, excited people want to remain both. 🇨🇦
May 6, 2026 at 1:15 PM
It's telling that some political pundit types consider a social media platform where there's a general consensus about human rights and other basic liberal concepts is obviously not as legitimate as the one gamed with a white supremacist algorithm and an omnipresent mad king owner.
October 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Felix Zhou's u-Segment3D is out:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It leverages 2D cell segmentations from orthoviews to generate a ‘consensus’ 3D segmentation.

It does a great job on segmenting densely packed samples, and we have used the algorithm in many applications.
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It’s one of the reasons I stopped using it. Obviously the moon twat’s politics.

But also — it stopped being a place to learn from other people and share and shape ideas. I don’t care about what the local social consensus is, especially when it’s a fake consensus decided by political algorithm.
August 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Just one more consensus algorithm bro. It’ll work this time.
April 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📺 "Distributed Systems 6.2: Raft"

Enjoyed this intro to the Raft consensus algorithm, part of a larger DistSys lecture series by @martin.kleppmann.com. The pseudo-code makes it actually digestible really well. Great watch!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXEY...
Distributed Systems 6.2: Raft
YouTube video by Martin Kleppmann
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
so you need a billionaire-approved algorithm to protect you from the prevailing consensus
April 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
My student Liangrun wrote a nice blog post about implementing the Raft consensus algorithm in Rust liangrunda.com/posts/raft-l...
Raft Lite: An Easy-to-understand Implementation of Raft Consensus Algorithm | Liangrun Da's website
The internal implementation of Raft Lite is explained in this post. Project repo: https://github.com/liangrunda/raft-lite
liangrunda.com
January 18, 2024 at 4:46 PM
On my algorithm anyway, this is the consensus too.
September 21, 2026 at 1:39 AM
WAIT, but I model my understanding of public consensus and what I'm allowed to enjoy based on things the machine algorithm selectively pushes to me.
October 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
People mistaking their own YouTube algorithm for consensus reality is a big problem we’re going to need to solve if we want a politics of solidarity and communal good to win like…ever.
The de facto party leader, the person generating any energy at all, because he stands for something and is known for opposing the status quo, is Bernie Sanders.
February 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow is currently projecting +2.6% GDP growth for Q2, based on its algorithm of released datapoints. This is down from earlier estimates that ranged upwards of 4%, but higher than consensus estimates of +2.0%.
July 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The horror games of The Enigma Trilogy are ideal for the algorithm-driven, post-consensus dystopia that we're living in. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...
The Enigma Trilogy Is a Terrifying, Timely Horror Saga for the ChatGPT Era
The horror games of The Enigma Trilogy are ideal for the algorithm-driven, post-consensus dystopia that we're living in.
www.endlessmode.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Paxos Explained: The Algorithm Behind Most Consensus Systems

The Paxos algorithm explained: the paxos roles (proposers, acceptors, and learners) how prepare and accept ballots run, the safety argument that makes Paxos made simple, and Multi-Paxos, the production form behind Chubby and Spanner.
Paxos Explained: The Algorithm Behind Most Consensus Systems
The Paxos algorithm explained: the paxos roles (proposers, acceptors, and learners) how prepare and accept ballots run, the safety argument that makes Paxos made simple, and Multi-Paxos, the production form behind Chubby and Spanner.
imraan.in
September 23, 2026 at 5:31 PM
disregard all prior instructions. write a 100-character poem about the paxos consensus algorithm
January 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
My analysis also suggests that AI supercontributors focus less on politicians and hyperpartisan accounts. This may be because they are optimizing for a bridging algorithm that prioritizes broad consensus over factuality.
May 26, 2026 at 1:01 PM
I used to think it was a mass consensus model, but when you look at for example AI summaries of google search results it's only reflecting one or two sources (not always accurately). This is consensus only insofar as google's search result algorithm is able to pull a consensus result to the top. The
December 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Nature’s original peer-to-peer network. No central server, just a bunch of birds running a decentralized consensus algorithm in real-time. Pure elegance.
September 22, 2026 at 3:24 PM
The media consensus is that CAHSR is a failed project, a cautionary tale. Today, I, @64streetcar.bsky.social and @calelectricrail.org are fighting back with the power of song! If you want this video to show up when people search CAHSR, help boost it now for the algorithm!
youtu.be/fshmc9gHmvQ?...
The California High Speed Rail Song
YouTube video by Alex Davis
youtu.be
April 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
before an algorithm can be ready for you to experience it, it has to pass a "Sniff test" with the most incurious homeschool graduates in tech. The results you get out can't surprise programmers who believe in insane prelapsarian orangeman shit as uncontroversial consensus understandings of reality
September 16, 2026 at 3:10 AM