Think back to your last telehealth visit with a doctor. Perhaps your kid had a persistently high fever, or you had worrying chest pain. Are you sure you were interacting with a human? What makes you sure? Perhaps the doctor listened attentively to your symptoms, asked pertinent questions, and even picked up on subtle cues in your language that hinted at the severity of your condition.
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I view research (and especially applied research of the type that Hop does) as a type of multi-armed bandit problem — one that tries to balance new approaches (exploration) with successful approaches (exploitation). The code quality/technical debt conversation is usually a bit muddled these days, but it becomes a bit easier to think about if you articulate where on the exploration/exploitation spectrum you currently are.
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