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Facebook has money and time. Plus a few hundred of the very best engineers in the valley, that joined pre-IPO.
by Strshps1MoreTim 14y ago
Facebook has money and time. Plus a few hundred of the very best engineers in the valley, that joined pre-IPO.
- rhizome 14y agoThese are engineering problems that are capital-h Hard, well beyond the level of graph theory they're using now.
- Strshps1MoreTim 14y agoYou can take any complex web site or app and say it has functions beyond some math theory. But just hacking around is often enough for a good enough solution.
- rhizome 14y agoWhy do you think FB, Amazon, or whoever don't have better recommendation/targeting algorithms than they have now if the solution was "just hacking around enough?" Not enough "enough?"