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To be fair to them, everyone is failing at this. Recommendation algorithms, once held up as a crowning achievement of machine learning, have turned out to be t
by noelsusman 7y ago
To be fair to them, everyone is failing at this. Recommendation algorithms, once held up as a crowning achievement of machine learning, have turned out to be terrible at their jobs. Amazon, Youtube, Netflix. None of them have it figured out.
- ojhughes 7y agoYouTube seems to be a lot better than the rest. I consistently get good music videos queued up, it is great for discovering new music
- goalieca 7y agoYouTube seems to give me clickbait crap with high view counts. Yes it may somewhat be related to my interests but not really.
- TimJRobinson 7y agoSpotifys algorithm is amazing, I'm constantly finding new indie bands that I love on it. YouTube is also really good. Netflix is terrible for me, I don't think it's ever recommended a show I've loved.
- crikli 7y agoHuh. My experience is the opposite. Somehow my Discover Weekly was mostly mariachi bands for a month. Finally told it I didn’t like enough of them that it got the hint. Now it’s overloaded with Scandinavian adult contemporary or something. It’s like all the other algorithms from one I’ve seen: listen to something accidentally that’s in a niche and it just loads up on recommendations from that niche.