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Something I didn't really learn in school, that I only picked up much later in my career, is that when applicable, applications should be built on top of mathem
by encoderer 13y ago
Something I didn't really learn in school, that I only picked up much later in my career, is that when applicable, applications should be built on top of mathematical models. A very contrived example would be.. would you build an ad rotator by keeping counts of all banners served and picking the next banner based on those counts and your weighting rules, or would you build the rotator on a foundation of statistics and probability with a little extra logic for handling caps and edge cases?
- yid 13y ago> would you build an ad rotator by keeping counts of all banners served and picking the next banner based on those counts and your weighting rules, or would you build the rotator on a foundation of statistics and probability with a little extra logic for handling caps and edge cases Actually, building on a foundation of solid statistics and probability will often result in an algorithm that essentially counts views and applies weighting rules. As another example, Pagerank has a nice theoretical basis, but power iteration reduces to perhaps 5-10 lines of C.
- linc01n 13y agoI built an ad engine base on probability. But I am not sure which way is better.