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Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by Angostura on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @04:20AM (#15448125)
Time to introduce her to Moana for a change of pace.
Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by cjCamel on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @06:13AM (#15448546)
Interestingly (and now very off topic), she hasn't even seen Frozen. She does not yet know it is a film AFAIK, and I'm in no hurry to tell her.

I believe that the concept of Frozen has been explained to her by her peer group, through the medium of hair plaits.

Three year old kids are a weird and amazing bunch.

Re:Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new... by aidos on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @07:59AM (#15449000)
Thinking about it a little more, we've listened to a lot of Moana / Frozen / Disney on my Spotify account and none of that has come up in the Discover Weekly, so I guess they filter for it somehow already. Though I guess when they compare to other people with the same tracks you'll probably get a bunch of listeners that fall into a similar category anyway. Also, it doesn't sound like the number of times you play a track adds a huge amount of weight anyway.