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For me this looks like a great way to build connections between books in order to create a recommendation engine - something better than what Goodreads & Co pro
by Ronsenshi 9mo ago
For me this looks like a great way to build connections between books in order to create a recommendation engine - something better than what Goodreads & Co provides. Something actually useful.
The cost of indexing using third party API is extremely high, however. This might work out well with an open source model and a cluster of raspberry pi for large library indexing?
- padolsey 9mo agoThe incumbants Goodreads and their owner Amazon have indeed done such a poor job at this. Seven years ago I tried creating a basic graph using collaborative-filtering (effectively using our actual reading patterns as the embeddings space instead of semantics [human X likes book Y so likers of Y might like other things that human X has enjoyed]). It works well to this day (ablf.io) but the codebase is so ugly I've not had the bravery to update its data in a couple of years.
- alansaber 9mo agoYes imo this is very useful but there's not a clear industry standard on how to do so yet, which I imagine will change? Tell me if i'm missing something