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Re:Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us by andyxor on Friday August 20, 2021 @07:08PM (#28252404)
If I recall a few years ago Chatroulette really needed a "Hotdog/Not-Hotdog" classifier. I hope they solved that tiny problem using big data.
Re:Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us by munk-a on Friday August 20, 2021 @07:25PM (#28252530)
As hilariously as the comment is worded - it's honestly the truth and the fact that this blog post is focused on "creating conversations longer than 30 seconds" and not on reducing conversations quicker than 5 seconds (because that's obviously a dong I'm looking at) feels to me like they've really missed the mark.

As uh, depressing as this may sound to the AI that needs to learn it, a hotdog focused neural network (let's just assume we'd call it "DongMind" because obviously we would) would probably greatly increase Chatroulette's value proposition.

Re:Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us by willcipriano on Friday August 20, 2021 @07:56PM (#28252721)
I heard this a long time ago but if I recall correctly, the Diablo 2 devs had a way to find cheaters and used match making to put them in games with one another. If a similar strategy was applied here...
Re:Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us by throwaway675309 on Friday August 20, 2021 @07:58PM (#28252735)
Jinwang would make more sense (pun on the name of the character who makes the hotdog/not hotdog classifier in Silicon Valley which the gp is referencing)
Re:Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us by caramelazimuth on Friday August 20, 2021 @07:59PM (#28252741)
Why not combine the "hotdog" filter with the collaborative filtering to make much better predictions about mutual engagement by specific users?
Re:Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us by nceasy on Friday August 20, 2021 @10:49PM (#28253681)
can you elaborate?
Re:Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us by bagels on Friday August 20, 2021 @11:33PM (#28253937)
Some people want to see nudity. Some people don't. Could use presence of nudity and preference for nudity in the model.