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Netflix recommendations are fucking garbage.

 

 

Included in my "Top Picks for" is The Starving Games parody of the Hunger Games.

 

First of all, I would never watch this trash, second it guesses that I would rate it 2/5 stars. 

 

Why the fuck is a movie I would rate two stars in my top picks!?

 

Get it together netflix

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I'm not saying it's perfect, but the algorithms these kinda things are based on need a lot info from all over the search space. They aren't always recommending movies they think you will love. They are trying to get new information out of you to improve the overall predictive power of the system.

Some of it really is (figurative) rocket science. Netflix used to give away a million dollar prize to anyone who could improve on their system. A lot of universities and labs would go after it.

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Netflix recommendations are fucking garbage.

 

 

Included in my "Top Picks for" is The Starving Games parody of the Hunger Games.

 

First of all, I would never watch this trash, second it guesses that I would rate it 2/5 stars. 

 

Why the fuck is a movie I would rate two stars in my top picks!?

 

Get it together netflix

 

When Netflix suggests stuff like that I just assume it's set to recommend it to everyone in a desperate "We paid money for this, please someone watch it so we don't feel like even bigger idiots than we already do."

 

 

There was a big article a few months back about the how netflix categories and suggestions work. There are an absurd number of classifications they use and so a lot of great movies can result in recommendations for garbage. Sometimes Netflix recommends me cool stuff, other times it doesn't. I'm pretty whatever about it.

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/

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Guys, I tried like a year ago when I was stoned and fell asleep. I'll try again based on the suggesting.

 

Firefly was dope, but it's one of the most overrated things. It would have been awesome if it got more than one season, but it didn't and I've moved on. The movie was only ok.

 

Definitely check it out though.

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