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Episode 257: Aural Fixation

Very Bad Wizards

How Lucy Liu Created an Algorithm That Optimizes

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Lucy Liu was a data scientist and working on algorithms. She thought, there is just a ton of things in my life that do seem sub-optimal. So she decided to create an algorithm that optimizes To help her make decisions. The algorithm would tell her whether to do one thing or another But also it would randomly toss in just a decision that she might not take otherwise. It had like a random function so that she might take decisions that she would never normally take.

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