Cal Newport: Career Progression and Consciously Disconnecting
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The Facebook Approval Indicator Slot Machine
Ai models are looking at millions of users reactions to figure out what works and so we have these two forces we have attention engineers or who are sitting there and making decisions like the engineer that decided they had to change the color of the facebook notification alert into alarm red. The machine learning ai approach says let's just let's build machine learning models that we'll try to learn you know how do we get people to look at the app longer right? This is sort of more of a blind approach to it they build these smart ai models it just study users if I show this or they're more likely to keep looking if I show this they're morelikely to keep looking,
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