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Re: Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model

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Post by Planktonne »

dbl000 wrote: post #50

Echoing what everyone else has said here - awesome site, love how fast it was. I did notice that when I put in a single book in a series (in my case Going Postal, Discworld #33) that tended to dominate the rest of the selection. That does make sense, but I don't want recommendations for a series I'm already well into. Also noticed that a few books (Spycraft by Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman, Tribalism is Dumb by An…

> It did stumble with ... more niche books (The Complete Yes Minister).

If you haven't already read it, you might like Lawrence Durrell's Antrobus [1].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/759709.Antrobus_complete

Re: Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model

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Post by Vvector »

lunias wrote: post #192
voidUpdate wrote: post #124

Does this break part 4 of the Goodreads TOS? "[...] you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from any materials or content accessible on the Service. Use of the Goodreads Content or materials on the Service for any purpose not expressly permitted by this Agreement is strictly prohibited." Al…

If it's on the internet, and people can access it, then it's public. I would have no expectations for what people do with public data; that just seems like setting yourself up for disappointment.

Is a pirated movie, found on bittorrent, public?

IMO, your definition is overbroad

Re: Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model

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Post by lm28469 »

kemotep wrote: post #161
croes wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I visit your garden and take 1 apple from your tree I visit your garden and take 1000 apples from your tree. Not that different.

Not only am I taking 1,000 apples, but I use those 1,000 apples to start my own orchard and encourage people to come to it instead of yours.

> but I use those 1,000 apples to start my own orchard

Steal cuttings, not the fruit, if you plan to start an orchard. From 1000 apples you'll get ~10 000 seeds, statistically you won't even end up with one good tree.

> An output of three cultivars from around 50.000 seeds means that 17.000 seeds were needed to get one cultivar. Only one out of around 9.000 scab resistant seedlings showed the appropriate quality to become a cultivar. This proportion underlines the enormous effort which is necessary to develop a new cultivar.

https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/13698/1/220-225.pdf

Re: Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model

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Post by dbl000 »

Planktonne wrote: post #203
dbl000 wrote: post #50

Echoing what everyone else has said here - awesome site, love how fast it was. I did notice that when I put in a single book in a series (in my case Going Postal, Discworld #33) that tended to dominate the rest of the selection. That does make sense, but I don't want recommendations for a series I'm already well into. Also noticed that a few books (Spycraft by Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman, Tribalism is Dumb by An…

> It did stumble with ... more niche books (The Complete Yes Minister). If you haven't already read it, you might like Lawrence Durrell's Antrobus [1]. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/759709.Antrobus_complete

I haven't read it, but I will check it out!
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