recommendation engine
description: information filtering system to predict users' preferences
227 results
The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
by Joshua Cooper Ramo · 16 May 2016 · 326pp · 103,170 words
. Maes hoped to design a computer that could predict what movies or music or books you or I might enjoy. (And, of course, buy.) A recommendation engine. We all know how sputtering our own suggestion motors can be. Think of that primitive analog exchange known as the First Date: Oh, you like
The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change
by Bharat Anand · 17 Oct 2016 · 554pp · 149,489 words
2002 Amazon had spent more than five years creating a formidable advantage in e-commerce. That came not only from a user-friendly platform and recommendation engine—both features were adopted by other entrants—but from its warehousing and logistics operation. By building distribution centers across the country, investing in algorithms to
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company exactly what movies every customer in every part of the country wanted next, letting it tailor inventory in different warehouses to local preferences. The recommendation engine, also thought of as a means of increasing customer satisfaction, doubled as an inventory management tool: It let the company recommend not only movies a
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality
by Jaron Lanier · 21 Nov 2017 · 480pp · 123,979 words
’t offer a comprehensive catalog, especially of recent, hot releases. If you think of any particular movie, it might not be available for streaming. The recommendation engine is a magician’s misdirection, distracting you from the fact that not everything is available. So is the algorithm intelligent, or are people making themselves
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You
by Eli Pariser · 11 May 2011 · 274pp · 75,846 words
door finds out someone is interested in education; we get back to that person and others like him or her with more information. Amazon’s recommendation engine is the direction we need to head.” The trend is clear: We’re moving from swing states to swing people. Consider this scenario: It’s
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: “How Rove Targeted the Republican Vote,” Frontline, accessed Feb. 8, 2011, www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/architect/rove/metrics.html. 152 “Amazon’s recommendation engine is the direction”: Mark Steitz and Laura Quinn, “An Introduction to Microtargeting in Politics,” accessed Dec. 17, 2010, www.docstoc.com/docs/43575201/An-Introduction
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by Kai-Fu Lee · 14 Sep 2018 · 307pp · 88,180 words
internet AI. This first wave began almost fifteen years ago but finally went mainstream around 2012. Internet AI is largely about using AI algorithms as recommendation engines: systems that learn our personal preferences and then serve up content hand-picked for us. The horsepower of these AI engines depends on the digital
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and, 14, 17, 56, 138 fake news detection by, 109 intelligence sharing and, 87 legal applications for, 115–16 medical diagnosis and, 114–15 as recommendation engines, 107–8 robot reporting, 108 white-collar workers and, 167, 168 Alibaba Amazon compared to, 109 Chinese startups and, 58 City Brain, 93–94, 117
Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges and Leaderboards
by Yu-Kai Chou · 13 Apr 2015 · 420pp · 130,503 words
” experience that no other eCommerce site can provide. Don’t fall behind your neighbors! Accompanying the Alfred Effect is Amazon’s Recommendation Engine, now infamous in the personalization industry. Amazon’s recommendation engine, according to Amazon themselves, led to 30% of their sales5. That’s a fairly significant factor for a company that is
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Amazon’s 29% sales growth from the second fiscal quarter of 2011 to the second fiscal quarter of 2012 was attributed to the recommendation engine.6 And what does this recommendation engine look like? “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought.” Amazon quickly realized that, by learning about what other people similar to you
The Industries of the Future
by Alec Ross · 2 Feb 2016 · 364pp · 99,897 words
has been great for supply chains, elections, and advertising because these tend to be fields with lots of small, repeated, and quantifiable actions—hence the “recommendation engines” used by Amazon and Netflix that help make more precise recommendations to customers. But these fields are just the beginning, and by the time my
The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
by Matthew Ball · 18 Jul 2022 · 412pp · 116,685 words
gaming and, 178–79, 278, 281n investment in AR/VR hardware, 143, 277–78 market capitalization of, 166 positioning for the Metaverse, 274, 277–78 recommendation engine, 288 see also Bezos, Jeff Amazon Game Studios, 277 Amazon GameSparks, 107–8, 117 Amazon Go, 157 Amazon Lumberyard, 278 Amazon Luna, 96, 131, 277
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
that define political extremes. The cybernetic outrage machine rewards those who reinforce extremes by supplying dopamine and engagement. Meanwhile, divergent opinions are algorithmically filtered out. Recommendation engines and moderation policies continuously channel, regulate, and modulate desires, opinions, and information according to likes, retweets, and reposts, or whatever dogma rules the present. And
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
by Nicholas Carr · 5 Sep 2016 · 391pp · 105,382 words
, headlines and stories from writers or publications we like, alerts about the availability of various other sorts of content on favorite subjects, or suggestions from recommendation engines—but it all shares the quality of being tailored to our particular interests. It’s all needles. And modern filters don’t just organize that
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. Television became more interesting when people started paying for it. 20. Instagram shows us what a world without art looks like. SECOND SERIES (2013) 21. Recommendation engines are the best cure for hubris. 22. Vines would be better if they were one second shorter. 23. Hell is other selfies. 24. Twitter has
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
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Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
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Shipping Greatness
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The Numerati
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Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
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The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business Is Small
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The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future
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Ctrl Alt Delete: Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends on It.
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Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)
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The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
by Benjamin H. Bratton · 19 Feb 2016 · 903pp · 235,753 words
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
by Jacob Silverman · 17 Mar 2015 · 527pp · 147,690 words
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
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Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
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Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
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The People vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (And How We Save It)
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Big Data Glossary
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Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
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Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us Into Temptation
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Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
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by Andrew Yang · 15 Nov 2021
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
by Michiko Kakutani · 17 Jul 2018 · 137pp · 38,925 words
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
by Madhumita Murgia · 20 Mar 2024 · 336pp · 91,806 words
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The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
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