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The reason after you make a purchase you still see offers for the same product is because you are still statistically more likely to purchase a vacuum than aver
by josho 4y ago
The reason after you make a purchase you still see offers for the same product is because you are still statistically more likely to purchase a vacuum than average. What if the vacuum doesn’t work well, it’s too heavy, the package doesn’t arrive? You’ll be turning around and buying another.
- stepanhruda 4y agoWould mainly make sense if I returned the original order, otherwise there must be much more efficient use of the recommendation space.
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- vntok 4y agoWell, no there isn't, and this company has the best data available on the planet to prove it.
- CamperBob2 4y agoThere should be a corollary to Hanlon's Razor. Something like, "Don't attribute to genius that which is adequately explained by laziness." Frankly, calling it Bezos's Razor would be very appropriate, because that's basically how the whole Amazon storefront works.
- vntok 4y agoNot quite. ML algorithms that continuously crunch billions of data points don't need to be called "genius", they're simply way more exhaustive in their search of optimums than "a vague idea from a regular person on the Internet that the best reaction to such situation is to do x" (with absolutely zero evidence to show for it of course).
- coredog64 4y agoAIUI, recommendations can come from multiple providers. If very detailed recommendations that take into account the fact that you’ve already bought a vacuum timeout, then your recommendations come from a dumber provider that is based on recent searches.
- mwint 4y agoBy “provider”, do you mean internal Amazon recommendation services?