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That's okay :) It started as an experiment and the initial results convinced me to make an app out of it rather than letting it be an experiment. I believe it'
by wewake 8y ago
That's okay :)
It started as an experiment and the initial results convinced me to make an app out of it rather than letting it be an experiment. I believe it's not possible to make a good recommendation system in general, with the limited data available about the community users. Using the HN API, I could only find user's submissions and comments (upvotes are private, thus limiting the amount of useful data). I ended up using only the submissions to determine user's topics of interest.
- citilife 8y ago> I believe it's not possible to make a good recommendation system in general It's definitely possible, however it would be limited to a subset of users (probably need 10 or 20 comments). When you limit it to submissions the number of words in a title is limited, and often not associated with the actual content itself.
- wewake 8y agoI've currently set 20 to be the minimum number of submissions required. Lowering that limit would only result in random recommendations. Wouldn't it be hard for even a human to properly tell what someone might be interested in by looking at just 4-5 submissions they've made?