Comment by jmbwell | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jmbwell | Hacker News Reader

Okay. Well so if the model will tend to converge on the median of a user’s interests as measured by engagement… the user would have to depart from the recommendations to increase the odds of being recommended something surprising, no?

It’s interesting to see how Netflix evaluates RecSys internally, inferring from how they are comparing GenRec to it. In both cases the premise seems to be that users mainly want to engage with more of the same.

I would be even more interested in some kind of comparison to Netflix’s much earlier system for exchanging reviews and recommendations among a user’s human social group. Seems like there could be some insights around the input of fresh signals from aligned but not strictly conforming participants.

> “Seems like there could be some insights around the input of fresh signals from aligned but not strictly conforming participants.”

Exactly. I think you nailed a good subreddit.

What is the raison d'être of the a subreddit if it’s not to share your emotional quest to “refill the vase” of your love affair with the object of shared affection?

For example, I’ve made my own, somewhat delightful, but also archaic side quests from O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin fiction series.

Gibbon’s “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, interesting authorial voice combining fiction and historical figures, but the characters have only brief moments on the stage.

The excellent narrator Patrick Tull of the A-M series lead me to:

Childers, Erskine, “The Riddle of the Sands” (1903), the archetype of the modern spy novel—with sailing!

So you want to post your find to the community? Maybe you have retained a trace of the author’s voice? So you bring your new books to the subreddit in fellowship.

But woe to you if in your excitement to share your new find you inadvertently, or intentionally, or carelessly, or with too much subtlety, break the “catechism” or moral codes of your subReddit group and insult its saints.

Well, then you’re in trouble. But lest we forget, _fortune favors the bold_. (What are the A-M peeps going to do if I piss them off? SWAT my house?)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AubreyMaturinSeries/

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