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If anyone has any good recommendations beyond the ones the model gave me, lmk!
by jonpon 4y ago
If anyone has any good recommendations beyond the ones the model gave me, lmk!
- bwb 4y agoI love what you are doing here! I am actually working on something similar with Shepherd.com :) I ask authors to recommend 5 books around a topic, theme, or mood. For example, here is one that Steven Pinker did on Rationality: https://shepherd.com/best-books/rationality https://shepherd.com/best-books/rationality Then I use NLP to identify Wikipedia topics around the book. And, use that to connect it to topics in order to make it a fun process to find your next book online. I am hoping to use Wikidata to build some really cool connections as we get going. What I also get from this is how books are connected to each other using human data. So that author 1 thinks that book 1 is similar in some way to 2, 3, 4, and 5. I use those inputs to power the new recommendation system I am launching next month. And, a few months after that a "books like" feature that will use that same data. And, then toward Winter I'll integrate book genre data into that. I am bootstrapped so we are rate limited on dev time :) In early 2023 I will add user accounts and a custom book recommendation newsletter based on what readers like in terms of genres, topics, books, and authors. And, once I have that user account I will slowly be moving to collecting readers 3 favorite books of the year. And, then using that data to identify your "Book DNA" and match you to other readers. Slowly but surely :) Email me at ben@shepherd.com if you would like to chat or have any ideas.