http://rc3.org/2008/11/25/the-new-york-times-on-collaborative-filtering/ Rafe Colburn on software development (and other topics) Mon, 21 May 2012 23:52:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://rc3.org/2008/11/25/the-new-york-times-on-collaborative-filtering/comment-page-1/#comment-3290 acm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:38:55 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=8731#comment-3290 <p>wow, I think the queue system is brilliant, a lot like Amazon's wish list -- every time we think of something (another missed movie, another good TV show we didn't watch or want to watch from the beginning), we add it to the queue. definitely don't know what's on there anymore, so if we forget to tweak when returning something, happy surprises result. I actually thought we wouldn't use it enough, but we probably see more movies now than before, even though TV (The Wire, Scrubs) initially prompted us to join -- that and the new baby...</p> wow, I think the queue system is brilliant, a lot like Amazon’s wish list — every time we think of something (another missed movie, another good TV show we didn’t watch or want to watch from the beginning), we add it to the queue. definitely don’t know what’s on there anymore, so if we forget to tweak when returning something, happy surprises result. I actually thought we wouldn’t use it enough, but we probably see more movies now than before, even though TV (The Wire, Scrubs) initially prompted us to join — that and the new baby…

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