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Re:Before YouTube’s algorithm, there were ‘coolhunters’ by bondarchuk on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:22AM (#32747530)
>if you skip the safe recommendations you'll start seeing more more intelligent recs such as videos that have the same presentation style as the ones you like except they were uploaded by unknown creators with 1k subs. Over time the algorithm will learn that you only like to rewatch certain kinds of videos (music videos in my case) and that you like to be surprised.

Why oh why can't you just tell youtube that this is what you want, instead of some elaborate algorithm training dance?

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Re:Before YouTube’s algorithm, there were ‘coolhunters’ by NavinF on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:35AM (#32747639)
Building an easily tunable recommendation algorithm has been on my bucket list for over a decade. I'm not aware of any serious implementations. I'm sure if you look at the issue trackers for any alternative client for YouTube, you'll find people who strive towards the same goal.
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