---
title: "Neural FM — Brad Jasper"
description: "A hackathon project that let you control your own information timeline by training neural-network classifiers on social media posts and news stories."
url: https://bradjasper.com/projects/neural-fm/
---

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# Neural FM

Archived · 2020 · AI · Bitcoin

A precursor to News Score.

A hackathon project that let you control your own information timeline by training neural-network classifiers on social media posts and news stories.

- [Devpost](https://devpost.com/software/neuralfm)
- [Source on GitHub](https://github.com/synfonaut/neuralfm)
- [Hackathon demo on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2KnNETRQ-Q)

![NeuralFM home page: a dark feed of Bitcoin stories, each with a score and voting buttons](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/home.BhzDU3EF_UkUVE.webp)

I built Neural FM for the Bitcoin SV Hackathon in the summer of 2020. Each channel was a feed of posts and news stories filtered by a small neural network. You voted on stories, retrained the model in a click, and the feed reshuffled to match. You could fork another person’s channel and change only the parts you wanted: the data source, the feature extractor, the normalizer or the network. Every model and every editorial decision was recorded on Bitcoin, so anyone could audit why a story was shown.

The idea of scoring the news with a model, instead of letting a platform decide, came back three years later in [News Score](https://bradjasper.com/projects/news-score/).

## Writing

- [NeuralFM: Tune In to Information](https://bradjasper.com/blog/neuralfm/) · August 2020