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Pretty surprised that the music recommendation results you've been experiencing have been quite poor. Your feedback would have been invaluable in retraining the
by tixocloud 6y ago
Pretty surprised that the music recommendation results you've been experiencing have been quite poor. Your feedback would have been invaluable in retraining the algorithm to make recommendations that suit your preference. Feels like a lost opportunity. Moreover, I don't know if much thought around self-discoverability/popularity has been factored into the design of the recommendation system - ideally, the recommendation system should surface interesting things that I like that I wouldn't necessarily discover on my own.
- jacobobryant 6y agoI've wondered about this a lot. It seems to be hit or miss--some people love e.g. Spotify's discover weekly/daily mix playlists, and some people hate them. I suspect that some users are outliers and it's hard to give them recommendations, and maybe tuning the system for them decreases the performance for other users. Also there may be limited business value in optimizing for those users anyway vs. pushing popular music.
- tixocloud 6y agoI suspect you’re right about trading off between pushing popular music vs tuning for outlier users. Feels like there are too many smart engineers to miss it. Plus you’re building a personalisation system which should be personalising things for individual users by default.