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I don't really mean generic. Heck, I'd be curious to know which one is the best in its most ideal use. That is, have any of them ever been really good? I'm com

• chudi 8y ago
  They aren't a hoax, some type of recommendation engines works really well especially the collaborative filtering types. The reallity is that once you have a subset of items that matches your behavior recsys are learning to rank problems in the broad sense, and any kind of algorithmic feed (fb, Instagram, news, Twitter) is essentially a recsys. There is a whole conference around these subjects with very good papers and competitions, look at the different kind of approaches to the recsys18 challenge by Spotify at the ACM site
  • rhizome 8y ago
    But that gets us back to the "Theory is closer to practice in theory more than practice" problem. some type of recommendation engines works really well especially the collaborative filtering types. Exactly what I was asking about, because I'm not so sure. Furthermore, I think it's a category error to include collaborative filtering here, which is not automated/ML/etc.