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I go to a lot of small power/symphonic metal concerts in Berlin, usually 100-200 people, small venue, 3 bands, 30-50 Euro entry, 5 Euro beer. Everything is so direct. The band is right in front of you - and quite often the earlier bands stand with you in the audience for the later ones. Very few people hold up their phones. It's one of the most retro experiences of people being present and in the moment.

If I compare that with the hoops my wife had to jump through to go to Taylor Swifts Eras tour - the fanclub joining, the late night ticket queues, the hefty price tag - all to sit in the back of a massive stadium with poor sound, observing a tiny dot in the distance that might or might not be Taylor swift I couldn't be more happy with my choice of genre.

Early in my career, I wrote sales funnel optimization algorithms for online-shops and travel websites. We've used an evolutionary algorithm approach - basically, a number of algos implementing competing strategies and aspects that could mutate, crossover, reproduce and die.

We ran this over two years and saw impressive results - especially for the time. I feel, this very much was a "thinking system" in the same sense. And I concur - there are many architectures and approaches to built this sort of thing.

Absolutely, of course. We've just launched and there are a number of features missing

Thanks, very interesting article and great explanations based on examples. Very exciting space!

Thanks :-) - should be fixed now.