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Originally Posted by harvey
take a look at this and lmk if this is what you're thinking about |
Pretty much (that last paragraph). Make it as configurable as possible. To implement in say a tube script you might have a weight variable. The program might modify this weight variable according to that data in order to affect which videos are displayed first as part of the existing algorithm (which might now only order based on say clicks). The amount of weight given to this variable might in itself be configurable. You might also have multiple related variables: hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. All with separate weights. You could further complicate it by having further distinctions.
It would take a lot of work and be weak AI but in theory it might be possible to build it such that it will experiment itself and try to tweak it's own algorithms and weights to maximize profit (would need updated records of revenues to use in something like a fitness function). This as opposed to having everything simply be configurable by hand. There's definitely a lot of cool possibilities. Though not very KISS.
