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The Netflix prize algorithms rely heavily on large amounts of data (thousands of votes per movie). It might be useful for Reddit and Digg as each story gets vot
by technoguyrob 19y ago
The Netflix prize algorithms rely heavily on large amounts of data (thousands of votes per movie). It might be useful for Reddit and Digg as each story gets votes in the 3-5 digits, but not so much for this site. Of course, it would definitely be something, but I don't think it would be as useful.
Not to mention, the Netflix data has a scale of 1-5. Digg-like sites have scales from 0-1 (no vote, or vote), so that might further dilute the quality.
- gaika 19y agoPopular stuff is easy to predict, it is the users with little feedback and less popular movies that make all the difference. Digg doesn't need a recommender because it is all about popularity, and if you do not like it - do not go there. I also want to go back to see the best stories on news.YC before I joined and I do not see a way to do that.
- neilc 19y agoYeah, I've often thought that the ability to see historical YC news stories would be very useful -- both for the period before a user joined the site, as well as when you miss a week or two because of vacation, illness, etc.
- gaika 19y agoFor that you can use http://www.aiderss.com/best/news.ycombinator.com http://www.aiderss.com/best/news.ycombinator.com , it is filtered based on popularity