Wednesday, 21 February 2024
quote [ systems designed to reflect and magnify curiosity will tend towards decentralization, towards resistance against the gravity of power even if they aren't consciously counterposed, ideologically, against the power itself. The premise of the genre system was that genres are communities, and so most of its algorithms tried to use fairly simple math to capture the collective tastes of particular communities of music fans. ]
Interesting thoughts by the canned maintainer of Every Noise at Once – now a former Spotify employee – on music recommendation algorithms.
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