{"id":13194,"date":"2014-09-17T06:36:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T03:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=13194"},"modified":"2014-09-17T06:36:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T03:36:11","slug":"potboilers-from-the-pit-of-the-amazons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/09\/17\/potboilers-from-the-pit-of-the-amazons\/","title":{"rendered":"Potboilers from the Pit of the Amazons!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazon recommendation system is still dumb, despite supposely being trained in my tastes for years now.  I wish for Lovecraft scholarship therefore I will like&#8230; Dennis Wheatley, <em>The Devil Rides Out<\/em>.  Er, no. <\/p>\n<p>I think the general problem arises from lumpen categorisation systems, which are auto-sorted according to publisher supplied metadata and then parsed by artist\/writer.  It serves publishers well to make their tagging of a product as broad as possible.  But a recommendation system needs to be able to make fine distinctions of taste, and do so even within artists.  Such as knowing that <em>Ziggy<\/em>-era Bowie is not the same as <em>Tin Machine<\/em>-era Bowie.  Or that Midge Ure&#8217;s Ultravox is mass-market pap compared to John Foxx&#8217;s Ultravox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazon recommendation system is still dumb, despite supposely being trained in my tastes for years now. I wish for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/09\/17\/potboilers-from-the-pit-of-the-amazons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unnamable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}