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by dcadenas 5354 days ago
Very interesting, it's the same mechanism behind email/Twitter addiction: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/28/email.addic...
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Nice catch.

"Random Reward Schedule" and "variable interval reinforcement schedule" look like different names for the same concept, but looking closer the former seems to cover both time and reward, and the latter focuses on the time component. Am I reading this correctly?

And Facebook's wall