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Re:Taste is increasingly dictated by algorithms by ggg9990 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @02:09PM (#16860829)
Not really, since libraries are not laid out randomly, and few electronic display experiences allow the kind of massively parallel visual scanning that humans are good at.
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Re:Taste is increasingly dictated by algorithms by mattkrause on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:23PM (#16864373)
One of the great pleasures of working at a research university is walking through the stacks and seeing shelf after shelf of books on the odd and interesting topics—-and they’re all free for the taking.

I’d easily put this in the top three reasons I stay in this job.

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