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3form | 14 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.

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make3|14 days ago

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.

TyrunDemeg101|13 days ago

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)_/¯