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I'm definitely interested! But.... NOTE: These are not criticisms so much as release 1.1 (or even 2.0) use cases.... The categories are too broad (and, for so

I'm definitely interested! But.... NOTE: These are not criticisms so much as release 1.1 (or even 2.0) use cases.... The categories are too broad (and, for some use cases, the 21 days is rather long, but I get it...). Re categories: While I am interested in science, quote unquote, I am orders of magnitude more interested in physics than biology, with the exception of biochemistry as it relates to evolutionary theory, and within physics I am at least an order of magnitude more interested in QM (two orders, if you can nail it down to relational QM) than I am in astrophysics, and my interest in astronomy is even lower, and my interest in exoplanets is mostly nil. And that's my personal interest stuff. Professionally, I am interested in JS specifically, so that would be programming, but I really have zero interest in Fortran or COBOL or Haskell, unless somehow those relate directly to things I can or might want to do in JS (full stack React FE, node BE). The timeframe side relates to that professional side as well: That JS focus will change at some point (startup life) and by the time 21 days have passed, well, I'll be about 2.5 weeks behind, eh?

jacobobryant 5y ago
I wouldn't worry too much about the topics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27666763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27666763 To add to that, topic modeling/content-based filtering is only used as a starting point anyway; as you rate the newsletters you receive, your recommendations will start to be dominated more by collaborative filtering ("people who liked X also liked Y", without thought for what X and Y are about). Also, the "21 days" thing is pure marketing/explanation :). It's just an attempt to help people (especially non-technical people) understand that it'll adapt to your preferences over time. It'll start adapting immediately, and it'll continue adapting after 21 days.

jacobobryant 5y ago

I wouldn't worry too much about the topics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27666763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27666763 To add to that, topic modeling/content-based filtering is only used as a starting point anyway; as you rate the newsletters you receive, your recommendations will start to be dominated more by collaborative filtering ("people who liked X also liked Y", without thought for what X and Y are about). Also, the "21 days" thing is pure marketing/explanation :). It's just an attempt to help people (especially non-technical people) understand that it'll adapt to your preferences over time. It'll start adapting immediately, and it'll continue adapting after 21 days.