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Netflix does such a bad job with recommendations for me that I can’t understand what they are doing. For example, I watch a lot of cooking shows. I just scroll
by gav 7y ago
Netflix does such a bad job with recommendations for me that I can’t understand what they are doing.
For example, I watch a lot of cooking shows. I just scrolled to the bottom of the recommendations on my tablet and they only suggest two—-and one of those I’ve watched every episode!
They repeatedly fail to tell me about new series of shows I’ve watched, or really obvious connections like “Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner” as I’ve watched “Ugly Delicious”.
The problem seems less of a ML one to me and more of a (lack of) metadata one.
Edit: I plugged “Ugly Delicious” into lazyday.tv and the “Similar Titles” are very random.
- fjabre 7y agoYes definitely lots of fine tuning still needs to be done for the similar titles playlist. It should be ok with most titles. I noticed that's a Netflix title so the algorithm maybe constraining the similar titles to the Netflix catalog. I have to look at that code again. Since there's less selection in Netflix the recommendations won't be as good because there's less to choose from. Some titles with less meta data are harder to get right as well.