Brian Whitman @ variogr.am: How music recommendation works -- and doesn't work
Brian Whitman @ variogr.am: How music recommendation works – and doesn’t work
When you see an automated music recommendation do you assume that some stupid computer program was trying to trick you into something? It’s often what it feels like – with what little context you get with a suggestion on top of the postmodern insanity of a computer understanding how should you feel about music – and of course sometimes you actually are being tricked.