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Re:How Netflix outsmarted everyone else in TV by tomnipotent on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @10:05PM (#17864793)
> Just simply occasionally injecting something randomly chosen from the catalogue would probably do wonders

This is a standard ML practice, otherwise ad networks would be stuck showing you the same ads (even though it feels that way sometimes). I'm willing to wager large sums of money that Netflix has tested EVERY idea mentioned anywhere in this thread and many others you couldn't guess.

Re:How Netflix outsmarted everyone else in TV by r_smart on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @10:32AM (#17868462)
You're probably right, but then the recommendations seems to just boil down to what other people are watching, what Netflix has recently produced and things in the same genre as what I'm watching a lot of at the moment. Seems like a pretty rudimentary output for such a sophisticated system.