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What you describe is an interpolation. It is a solution for what already exists. You can interpolate this long, bisecting various axis ranges that specify a pro

by thesz 5y ago

What you describe is an interpolation. It is a solution for what already exists. You can interpolate this long, bisecting various axis ranges that specify a problem (short messages using text, using emojis only, using pictures, using videos, using...). This is exactly the stuff NN are good for - after all, they are universal approximators for functions with bounded domain and bounded codomain. At some point of time you will need to extrapolate. Twitter was an extrapolation, Google was an extrapolation as well. Can a system trained to provide you with system design of a Twitter clone let you help with the design of, say, Medium?

TeMPOraL 5y ago
> Twitter was an extrapolation, Google was an extrapolation as well. Were they? Twitter: "an absolutely minimal MySpace clone. Let users write posts to feed using SMS." Google: "Like AltaVista, but without all the bullshit - just the search box. For weighting, have it use this funny algorithm we figured out the other day." I'm not denying both were innovative - I just think the innovation, the "extrapolation", didn't happen at the technical/tactical level we're discussing here. All the pieces were already there, and used for similar things. The innovation was in figuring out that this particular shape of service is something people might want to use, and that it could make money.
- thesz 5y ago
  The extrapolations there are "limit on the post size" and "this funny algorithm". That "just the search box" thing would not go anywhere without that algorithm. I guess the "search box only" design decision was a kind of thing that happened to ARM: its' founder said that ARM was able to give its' chip developers the thing that neither Intel nor IBM was able to give - the absence of money.
  - TeMPOraL 5y ago
    > The extrapolations there are "limit on the post size" and "this funny algorithm". I disagree. "Limit on the post size" was not arbitrary, it was a technical limitation - Twitter was created as "a social network, but for SMS". SMS was a well-known technology back then. As for "this funny algorithm", in context of the dialogue 'endisneigh posted, the algorithm is just an input. "Hey, AI, use that thing as a ranking function". The "extrapolative" work would be the invention of the algorithm itself.

by thesz 5y ago

TeMPOraL 5y ago

> Twitter was an extrapolation, Google was an extrapolation as well. Were they? Twitter: "an absolutely minimal MySpace clone. Let users write posts to feed using SMS." Google: "Like AltaVista, but without all the bullshit - just the search box. For weighting, have it use this funny algorithm we figured out the other day." I'm not denying both were innovative - I just think the innovation, the "extrapolation", didn't happen at the technical/tactical level we're discussing here. All the pieces were already there, and used for similar things. The innovation was in figuring out that this particular shape of service is something people might want to use, and that it could make money.

thesz 5y ago
The extrapolations there are "limit on the post size" and "this funny algorithm". That "just the search box" thing would not go anywhere without that algorithm. I guess the "search box only" design decision was a kind of thing that happened to ARM: its' founder said that ARM was able to give its' chip developers the thing that neither Intel nor IBM was able to give - the absence of money.
- TeMPOraL 5y ago
  > The extrapolations there are "limit on the post size" and "this funny algorithm". I disagree. "Limit on the post size" was not arbitrary, it was a technical limitation - Twitter was created as "a social network, but for SMS". SMS was a well-known technology back then. As for "this funny algorithm", in context of the dialogue 'endisneigh posted, the algorithm is just an input. "Hey, AI, use that thing as a ranking function". The "extrapolative" work would be the invention of the algorithm itself.