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Who Writes These Algorithms?
Jul. 15th, 2015 12:41 pmGoodreads seems to have lulled me into a false sense of security. Every time I read a Nightrunner book by Lynn Flewelling, it recommends some gay paranormal romance books to me, and so far it's really had my number. I've enjoyed several of those books, to the tune of completing 136% of my annual reading challenge on Goodreads.
But now Goodreads is making recommendations to me based on my reading Monty Python's Flying Circus: Complete and Annotated. Said recommendations include: The One That Got Away: My SAS Mission Behind Enemy Lines, Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival, Betty Crocker's New Cookbook, Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Girlhood Friend, and Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It.
I want to see the algorithm that can correctly predict a person's taste in gay paranormal romance but can't recommend humor books to Monty Python readers.
But now Goodreads is making recommendations to me based on my reading Monty Python's Flying Circus: Complete and Annotated. Said recommendations include: The One That Got Away: My SAS Mission Behind Enemy Lines, Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival, Betty Crocker's New Cookbook, Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Girlhood Friend, and Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It.
I want to see the algorithm that can correctly predict a person's taste in gay paranormal romance but can't recommend humor books to Monty Python readers.
