Comment by 3form
15 days ago
For an older Internet user, it feels baffling that returning a website to a state where it shows you what you search for, and what you subscribe to, is considered an extreme nuclear option.
15 days ago
For an older Internet user, it feels baffling that returning a website to a state where it shows you what you search for, and what you subscribe to, is considered an extreme nuclear option.
Amazon and Spotify and Netflix are all enormous examples of not just giving you what you asked for (->recommendation engines).
They were there all along, just less egregiously.
Even PageRank (the secret sauce in the original Google search) is arguably a recommendation engine.
You can just use PCA of some feature then use cosine similarity, this has been known forever.
I'm also an older Internet user, but I assumed that it was a nuclear option to so dramatically change the expected behavior that without warning people they would be quite shocked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯