It's so interesting how powerful word embeddings (or in this case account embeddings) are. This reminds me a bit of the 538 article[1] about doing math on subre

It's so interesting how powerful word embeddings (or in this case account embeddings) are. This reminds me a bit of the 538 article[1] about doing math on subreddits - I'd be interested to see what sort of math you could do on instagram account embeddings. What happens when you subtract two celebrities from each other? Also, I'm curious about the tradeoffs of revealing this information - does knowing this make it easier to game the instagram algorithm? From this article I'd think that having a more narrowly targeted account (for example someone putting selfies on one account and landscape photos on another) might make their embedding more similar to others. Another thought is that maybe someone liking a bunch of things unrelated to their content would make them wrongly appear in certain explore pages. [1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-trumps-most-rabid-online-following/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-trumps-most-...