Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine

Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by whiddershins on Saturday April 01, 2023 @02:54PM (#35402950)

I had a friend who this happened to with ducks. You would go to her house and there were little duck icons and duck figurines and duck themed things everywhere.

When questioned, it turns out she never cared about or liked ducks. Someone gave her one and then it became the go to present for her for every occasion, for decades.

Decades of ducks.

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by cunidev on Saturday April 01, 2023 @03:43PM (#35403419)

I am probably part of this problem - an enabler, so to say. I was hosted a nice lady with a house full of duck themed things (this was in southern England, probably not the same lol), and left her two (rather cute) duck-themed things when I moved assuming that she'd like those.

She was unequivocally happy when I did, but perhaps it was just because of the gesture.

(EDIT: also, the rooster/horse/duck example of feedback loop would make for a terrific blog post)

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