{"id":1718,"date":"2026-08-12T17:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2026-08-12T18:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:03:45","slug":"iterated-regression-to-the-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1718","title":{"rendered":"Iterated regression to the mean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laurenleek.substack.com\/p\/temperature-zero-for-culture-why\">https:\/\/laurenleek.substack.com\/p\/temperature-zero-for-culture-why<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why everything is becoming bland. \u00a0I get this when playing music on Tidal; each new selection it makes eventually ends up in Pachelbels Canon or some other old chestnut, regardless of where I start: Brahms string quartets, 20th century experimental vocal music, \u2026. She looks at three different systems: shopping streets in London, lyrics in music, movies people watch, and draws the threads together as a failure of exploration of a space vs exploitation of the space, resulting in convergence of local minima rather than an explosion of personalization options. \u00a0The solution, she posits, is finding a threshold of variance that allows such systems to climb away from local minima, a value she finds is around 5%. \u00a0As she says, this won\u2019t work in a market, because it effectively requires a business to propose one twentieth of its offerings not knowing whether or not they\u2019ll be leaving money on the table, a hard sell for a successful business. \u00a0So she returns to regulatory intervention in the markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/laurenleek.substack.com\/p\/temperature-zero-for-culture-why Why everything is becoming bland. \u00a0I get this when playing music on Tidal; each new selection it makes eventually ends up in Pachelbels Canon or some other old chestnut, regardless of where I start: Brahms string quartets, 20th century experimental vocal music, \u2026. She looks at three different systems: shopping streets in London, lyrics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}