I never pay any attention to them. Why do you ask? << So what do you think about Netflix's recommendations of shows for you?
Well, let's take a look at what you actually said: "I looked at some articles on this a couple weeks ago. However their suggestions are about as relevant as what Google or Amazon recommends..." Which, you know, makes it appear that "this" refers to the relevance of Netflix's suggestions. And that (as I said) is not what the article I recommended is about. Nor is it about what you go on to talk about in your next paragraph: You seemed to have missed that I said this information is a couple weeks old. You are also forgetting that I'm a programmer and was well aware of heuristic procedures being used to determine tastes. In fact I am on home theater forums where this is discussed quite a bit including your aforementioned article. And being in the entertainment industry know how we "engineer" products to appeal to tastes. It seems that you do not, in fact, know what this particular article is about. Nothing to do with determining or appealing to tastes, you see. But heaven forbid you actually read the article and find out. Oh, and what did the folks on your home theater forums have to say about Perry Mason? >> On 02/06/2014 09:33 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: The relevance of Netflix's suggestions is NOT NOT NOT what this article is about, Bhairitu. If you actually have a look at it, I'm pretty sure you'll be intrigued. Thanks. I looked at some articles on this a couple weeks ago. However their suggestions are about as relevant as what Google or Amazon recommends because of the way I use Netflix. For instance I only watched "Atlas Shrugged II" for reference and gave it only 1 star (you can't give no stars) so they post a message after such a rating that they have no recommendations based on that rating. The movie itself is quite laughable. On 02/05/2014 09:37 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood To understand how people look for movies, the video service created 76,897 micro-genres. We took the genre descriptions, broke them down to their key words, … and built our own new-genre generator. This article from The Atlantic by Alexis Madrigal is a whole lot more fascinating than it sounds. Especially the Perry Mason Ghost in the Machine, which emerges toward the end. The "new-genre generator" is the least of it.
