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That sounds like a great interface. But it doesn't stop you from having to do all of the filtering/categorizing. Maybe if after having done all of that work on

by evlapix 17y ago

That sounds like a great interface. But it doesn't stop you from having to do all of the filtering/categorizing. Maybe if after having done all of that work on your end, there would be a nice way to share that with followers.

sunkencity 17y ago
Yep it could learn from the usage.
tdoggette 17y ago
Nah, the only categorization that really needs to be done is by topic. It's easy to tell if something is, say, a tech article, or tech/programming, or tech/linux, based on source and keywords. If your algorithm did that once per item that's in anyone's feed, everything else is refinement. Ideally, a human won't need to touch it at all. Even if the machine gets it wrong, it could be corrected with a "this is in the wrong place" button. In any case, an article shouldn't rise too high in any category that it's not relevant for.
- derefr 17y ago
  I'd like to see the categories automatically created via SVD. I wonder how people would react to the knowledge that their favorite posts are written by 30-something males on Saturdays, and include the word "has" twice as often as the word "my"?
sunkencity 17y ago
I wouldn't mind an interface with some knobs and dials, given that one can escape the linearity of the feed, and replace that with a recombinant stratified interface which can present the information space from several different vantage points. It'd be a line of flight interface: “This is how it should be done: Lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an advantageous place on it, find potential movements of deterritorialization, possible lines of flight, experience them, produce flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of intensities segment by segment, have a small plot of new land at all times. It is through a meticulous relation with the strata that one succeeds in freeing lines of flight...” – Deleuze and Guattari http://www.linesofflight.net/linesofflight.htm http://www.linesofflight.net/linesofflight.htm
- tdoggette 17y ago
  An interface that weird had better be devastatingly well-implemented, or people will just be confused.

by evlapix 17y ago

sunkencity 17y ago

Yep it could learn from the usage.

tdoggette 17y ago

Nah, the only categorization that really needs to be done is by topic. It's easy to tell if something is, say, a tech article, or tech/programming, or tech/linux, based on source and keywords. If your algorithm did that once per item that's in anyone's feed, everything else is refinement. Ideally, a human won't need to touch it at all. Even if the machine gets it wrong, it could be corrected with a "this is in the wrong place" button. In any case, an article shouldn't rise too high in any category that it's not relevant for.

derefr 17y ago
I'd like to see the categories automatically created via SVD. I wonder how people would react to the knowledge that their favorite posts are written by 30-something males on Saturdays, and include the word "has" twice as often as the word "my"?

sunkencity 17y ago

I wouldn't mind an interface with some knobs and dials, given that one can escape the linearity of the feed, and replace that with a recombinant stratified interface which can present the information space from several different vantage points. It'd be a line of flight interface: “This is how it should be done: Lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an advantageous place on it, find potential movements of deterritorialization, possible lines of flight, experience them, produce flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of intensities segment by segment, have a small plot of new land at all times. It is through a meticulous relation with the strata that one succeeds in freeing lines of flight...” – Deleuze and Guattari http://www.linesofflight.net/linesofflight.htm http://www.linesofflight.net/linesofflight.htm

tdoggette 17y ago
An interface that weird had better be devastatingly well-implemented, or people will just be confused.