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Instagram’s Founder On Why All Social Media Looks The Same — With Kevin Systrom

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The Best Machine Learning Strategy Is Random Exploration

I found it really interesting that generally speaking, the optimal strategy with any machine learning system is some portion of the time to do what you think the user is going to want. And then you set aside some smaller portion of time to kind of randomize the behavior. Because that random exploration allows you to discover things you wouldn't have known otherwise. It's also a very effective way to not what we call tunnel vision.

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