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I'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 su
by jacobobryant 6y ago
I'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.