Re:Taste is increasingly dictated by algorithms
by gowld on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @08:30PM
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Libraries are also tiny though. Subreddits also have curated lists of related subreddits in sidebar. /r/popular and /r/all give you a sample of posts from various subreddits (curated by users), which then link to related subs. Each sub itself is a browsable and sortable collection of related content.
Re:Taste is increasingly dictated by algorithms
by pnathan on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @06:37PM
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Yes, definitely. I would consider a subreddit to be something like a daily magazine, and the curated lists to be something like a collection of them.
Libraries.... are not precisely tiny. Depends on the library. And a shocking amount of internet statements have a shockingly small entropy.....
libraries are curated, organized, and structured to allow browsing.
random does nothing of the above.
meaning is a polyspectral space, and libraries are a lower-dimensional reduction of that to allow perusal through multiple bands of meaning. while the result may be arbitrary, it's within the bounds of the arc in the meaning-space. In addition, the curation of books means that arrant nonsense is culled (hello r/ooer), and highly niche bits of meaning are stored in appropriate places - usually residing in academic journals housed in university libraries.