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by ohgodplsno 1516 days ago
The coffee roast temperature and grind is decided every day by yet another ML algorithm, as Google has effectively an unlimited army of ML researchers and infinite computing power. A rogue PhD on a cocaine binge unfortunately tuned the parameters too high once, and the results have been getting worse ever since, as a result of Sundar being increasingly disappointed by the coffee, but not being able to do anything about it because "it's the algorithm"