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Hunch Hasn't a Clue About My Intentions
- angelbob 17y agoOn the one hand, he has a good point buried in there: Hunch doesn't collect enough useful information, and it doesn't do a great job with it. Fair enough. However, his basic hostility to the idea of recommendations coming from a machine seems misplaced. Presumably he's not out there railing against Amazon and NetFlix recommending books and movies to all of us... And they actually do a pretty good job. Overall, a very poorly written article. Yes, yes, you'd like several semi-elite celebrities of Silicon Valley to do a better job with $12 million. And I'd like a pony.
- rdl 17y agoFundamentally bayesian antispam, netflix, and amazon all win because they generate recommendations as a side effect of user actions (ideally "what they buy/watch", but even just marking things with stars or tags). Hunch is a failure because it tries to get users to explicitly generate recommendations. Humans are unreliable self-reporters.
- pclark 17y agoit's amusing how he calls Hunch the "la crème de la creme of Silicon Valley" despite them being in New York. Heh :)
- bhattisatish 17y agoTo me hunch is not a recommendation system. To me it seems to be more of a data collector. I have a strong feeling they are just collecting the data generated by us and re-selling it, but pretending at the same time to 'recommend' something. A con job is all I can think.