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That first great contradiction in terms. The algorithm which picks up that you bought sneakers on Amazon last week, so the most productive use of an advertiser’s dollars over the next six months is carpet-bombing every unoccupied cranny in your cyber-landscape with advertisements for exercise plimsolls. Also employed by social media platforms like LinkedIn to save you the bother of composing your own unctuous endorsements of people you have met once and who have just posted about the wild old time they've had at a panel discussion on the securities financing transactions regulation.