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How does journalism fare in a world where algorithms trump messy chance?
- terra_t 16y agoThe right way to think about S.E.O. and social media operations is that it's all about chance -- first you do what you can to get the odds in your favor, then you buy as many tickets as you can. Search engine designers think about it statistically too; Google doesn't understand a damn thing, but the algorithms "bet" that a certain choice will be useful for end users. I was at a machine learning talk lately where they described it as a "multi-armed bandit".