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I don't agree with most of the article, but I do find the idea of "quantitative aesthetics" interesting. I am but one sample, but I would really like a feature
by smokel 3y ago
I don't agree with most of the article, but I do find the idea of "quantitative aesthetics" interesting.
I am but one sample, but I would really like a feature in Instagram to view posts that fall within the, say, 5th to 20th percentile with regards to the number of likes. I am now condemned to the people I already follow on one hand, and the massively popular (and therefore typically very uninteresting) artists on the other hand. I would love to discover more fringe art.
The tag system on Instagram is fairly adequate for discriminating between an interest in art or cars, but both tropes are still quite big.
If anyone at Instagram is reading this: perhaps you could train your algorithms not only on popularity, but also on an interest in the _lack_ of popularity.