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0 pointszeroonetwothree3y ago0 comments

If there was a 300 dimensional vector expressing your nuanced gender identity that would be even better, but advertisers would have no idea how to target it (at least at first).

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csa3y ago

> advertisers would have no idea how to target it (at least at first).

It would take very little time to reap massive efficiencies in targeting, and the rest would be long-tail that would be discovered as budget allowed.

anankaie3y ago

The easiest way to do this would be to train a bandit model to be a bidder, using this vector as part of the input features.

You would spend some time and money doing randomized exploration (maybe something more sophisticated with active learning, but just uniform random could work), then train a basic bidder to optimize whatever you are currently interested in.

The process of manually deciding which tags fit which ads is not long for this world.

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