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That's the funny thing to me, that people are using Netflix as an example. To me, Netflix ratings are just about the most useless ratings of all the ratings I'm aware of, maybe eve…

I seem to be the only one who remembers this, but for a brief period of time, Amazon implemented the lower confidence bound approach (where you were sorting on the lower bound to t…

The flaw with that line of criticism is that it makes assumptions about the meaning of the ratings. Note, too, that Arrow's impossibility theorem applies to ranking but not ratings…

I do research in this area and have many reactions to a lot of topics being brought up. I read this piece when it first was written and didn't think to look at the posting on HN un…