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That's because the recommendation systems are optimizing for the wrong things: typically dwell time. You are highly likely to dwell longer on scifi, so heres mo
by chewxy 7y ago
That's because the recommendation systems are optimizing for the wrong things: typically dwell time. You are highly likely to dwell longer on scifi, so heres more scifi for you!
Older recommendation systems use background and foreground timeframes to build frames of references, hence repeats.
The question to ask then is: what is the correct thing to optimize for? Dwell time is usually chosen for advertising and stickiness (you are more likely to stick with a service that plays what you like). Optimizing for novelty is difficult because the set of unknown things is much larger than the set of known things. Plus, it is risky from a business point of view.
- kristopolous 7y agoIt's an interface problem. Users aren't able to express the fidelity needed through the current action set
- mooreds 7y agoRight. You only have four actions on Spotify as I recall (thumbs up, thumbs down, pause and fast forward). I guess some of the other apps have the larger bucket of 'who is watching/acting' based on account. I am not sure how many actions are needed, but I can think of a few more: * Not now, but later is fine * Maybe next month * Play the opposite of this * Something similar but new to me
- ancarda 7y agoIt'd be nice to have an "I've already seen this" button that will mark an episode/season/show as watched so it doesn't keep coming back up. Netflix really wants me to watch Breaking Bad, but I've already seen it. I liked it; give me more like that, but not exactly that
- frosted-flakes 7y agoYou can do this with YouTube. Just click "Not interested" in the three-dots menu, and click the "Tell us why" link that appears.
- wwwhizz 7y agoAfter which it will still recommend it to you.
- DJHenk 7y ago> It'd be nice to have an "I've already seen this" button that will mark an episode/season/show as watched so it doesn't keep coming back up. That's not just nice, that is the most obvious "feature" a normal person would design. I've stopped watching Netflix because of nonsense like this. They know I've seen it before, because I watched in their player. Also, even the tiniest, most modest application of analytics would discover that I always watch one series at the time, from start till end, or whenever I'm bored with it. In the past years, I have never ever watched a thing twice. Still, it was constantly showing me things I've already seen. The only conclusion I can draw from this is that Netflix does not have have my best interest in mind when designing their algorithms and that they don't respect their customers. So I canceled.
- JohnJamesRambo 7y agoEspecially on Netflix now...it was lobotomized with the addition of the thumbs up thumbs down binary rating system.