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Why Facebook Automates Work

July 17, 2015

Julia Kirby, for Harvard Business Review, interviewed Facebook’s Vice President of Engineering, Jay Parikh. I added the bold emphasis.

So this notion of augmenting your people and enabling them up to take on more interesting work – that is really what drives the automation agenda?

The reason why the automation is so important is that it does free up these teams to go think about and do things for the future. If you think about it, most tech companies in the world today are spending an incredible amount of time competing for the best of the best in the world. For a smart person in tech, there are just a lot of fun companies with fun problems to go work on. So once you’ve worked so hard to get people into the company and to ramp them up and to understand your environment, you want to keep them. You want to have them be engaged. You want them to grow and develop their careers and stay with you for this ride that is scale over a really long period of time.

Hat tip to Marginal Revolution, where I first ran across this.

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Why Apple, Snapchat and Twitter are Betting on Human Editors, but Facebook and Google Aren’t

June 26, 2015

Mathew Ingram, for Fortune, quoting Ben Thompson, who runs and writes Stratechery:

Google is seeking the single best answer to a direct query from an effectively infinite number of data points… For most queries there is one right answer that Google will return to anyone who searches for the term in question. In short, the data set is infinite (which means no human is capable of doing the job), but the target is finite. Facebook, on the other hand, creates a unique news feed for all of its 1.44 billion users… what is infinite are the number of targets.

When the data set is big (Google’s challenge) or the user set is big (Facebook’s challenge), you need an algorithm. Good article, in large part due to good insights from Ben.

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