New Story: Steady State Read the story here While working with the News Feed teams, it was fascinating how even the employees at Facebook didn’t fully understand the feed. It wasn’t that they didn’t understand its architecture or code—those are fully documented and there are even internal classes to get up to speed—but rather, how tweaking the algorithm would change its behavior. And how could they? The News Feed is a hungry beast locked in an engagement loop with two billion brains, mostly via twitching fingers sliding over gorilla glass.
015: Steady State and the Engagement Beast
015: Steady State and the Engagement Beast
015: Steady State and the Engagement Beast
New Story: Steady State Read the story here While working with the News Feed teams, it was fascinating how even the employees at Facebook didn’t fully understand the feed. It wasn’t that they didn’t understand its architecture or code—those are fully documented and there are even internal classes to get up to speed—but rather, how tweaking the algorithm would change its behavior. And how could they? The News Feed is a hungry beast locked in an engagement loop with two billion brains, mostly via twitching fingers sliding over gorilla glass.