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kodis on March 1, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Netflix's algorithm exposes technology's raci...

Exactly right, but that wouldn't result in as controversial a headline.

Turing_Machine on March 1, 2016 [–]

Yup. When I was reading the Horatio Hornblower books a while back, and Amazon suddenly started recommending books by Patrick O'Brian and Dudley Pope, I didn't arrive at the conclusion that Amazon's algorithm was "racist" with respect to 19th Century British naval culture.

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