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xhrpost ◴[] No.42937042[source]
Wonder what it would take to add a simple algorithm to this. Part of what makes short media apps (dangerously) addictive is that they eventually learn what you like and feed you more of that. An app like this with such an algo could help with the stickiness (and presumably get us away from the other apps at least for a little bit). "Oh this person likes science stuff, let's feed them more, oh they specifically like stuff related to quantum mechanics, let's place a summary paragraph from a related page topic in there."
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aDyslecticCrow ◴[] No.42938741[source]
For each 10 seconds of reading, increment the tags on the current article as "favoured". Then, poll randomly from those tags for the next recommended article. Add some logarithms of division to prevent the tags from infinite scaling.
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1. epolanski ◴[] No.42938998[source]
Can you tell that YouTube reels engineers? Because their Algo is a disaster where I'm only fed Sopranos and NBA content. I don't hate it, but god I have so many subscriptions (civil aviation, personal finance, etc) that I never ever see on my feed.