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Re: Why?

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Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:

> Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Why does it take fifteen clicks to order a burger, but only a single 
>> enter character to submit a partly completed letter to the government?
> 
> Because the McDonalds marketing department has determined that the 
> additional "engagement" provided by the fifteen clicks produces more 
> up-sell opportunities (i.e., advertising) that, they believe, result in 
> a higher net sale vs. the one-click model, and so to increase profit, 
> fifteen clicks it is.

Any day now, web design will be done or at least managed by neural
nets.  There will be, say, 2500 input units representing any feature,
element or factor that the neural net guys can distinguish.  After
training, the answer to this or any similar "why" question will be
embodied in the 2500 x N matrix of weights (and similar for multiple
layers).  No human will *ever* be able to determine "why" the resulting
pages are as they come to be except that they generate more
juice. (viz. profit, clicks, eyeballs, gross sales or whatever target
they were trained on.)

All those 20-something web designers from the naughties we've come to
hate will 40-somethings but off the hook for responsibility.  They may
also be unemployed.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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Why? Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-05-18 19:18 +1000
  Re: Why? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-05-18 14:09 +0000
  Re: Why? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-05-18 19:51 +0000
    Re: Why? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-05-18 21:06 -0300
  Re: Why? Miss Robot <miss.robot@lozza.ca> - 2019-06-21 11:53 -0400
    Re: Why? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-21 17:01 +0000
      Re: Why? Miss Robot <miss.robot@lozza.ca> - 2019-06-21 17:24 -0400
        Re: Why? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-21 21:53 +0000
        Re: Why? Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-06-23 11:35 +0100

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