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Regarding your second point, I really understand this position - fair enough (re. zeitgeist and personal point in life of someone looking for films and rating f
by wfn 11y ago
Regarding your second point, I really understand this position - fair enough (re. zeitgeist and personal point in life of someone looking for films and rating films, etc.) I just wonder if it wouldn't be interesting to spend some time looking at recommendation systems which are not just simply about intersecting users' votes and presenting something "just what you've recently liked." But this would be more of a playful experimentation which is more hobbyist in nature, for sure.
- 6502nerdface 11y agoWhat, so like, "as an early thirty-something who just found out you're about to become a father, you may enjoy films X, Y, Z"? To really get people's life chapters and such you'd have to have massive metadata about them beyond the scope of a video service. Google/FB could do it, though.
- wfn 11y agoIt was more a comment about how considerations such as this make collaborative recommendation systems precisely less useful. Regarding rec.systems that move beyond naive rating/like intersections between users (such as e.g. Jaccard similarity index), I think there could be interesting algorithms developed that make use of assigned/curated item tags together with collaborative filtering/recommendations (e.g. something that last.fm has considered (or has been considering) - there's an entire field of research for just music recommendation systems.)