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I built a content recommender as a graph, and it found similarities I wasn't looking for
Most beginner recommendation projects are a dictionary lookup. You type
"comedy", it returns the comedy list. That works, and it is also the
reason those projects are forgettable: a dictionary can tell you what is
similar, but it can never tell you what is interestingly different .
I wanted the second thing. So I modelled the catalogue as a weighted
graph instead, and ended up finding a kind of similarity I had not
designed for.
The project is called CreatorRoute. It recommends short...
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