What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
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Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#2Is this site yours? If so you should say so.
Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#3Is this site yours? If so you should say so.
No. It is absolutely not. I just found it on reddit the other day and thought it was interesting. I think it is an intriguing idea but I don't think it will work because tagging cannot capture enough information about a particular web page. Personally I didn't find it to be very useful, but I was wondering what other people's opinions are.
Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#4Is this site yours? If so you should say so.
No. It is absolutely not. I just found it on reddit the other day and thought it was interesting. I think it is an intriguing idea but I don't think it will work because tagging cannot capture enough information about a particular web page. Personally I didn't find it to be very useful, but I was wondering what other people's opinions are.
It is not just tags, it is using a netflix like recommendation system inside.
Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#5I'm a founder of jaanix. Just a bit of background - jaanix is not a regular social news site. First of all everything is personalized - and not just by tweaking some settings or selecting your favorite tags, but in a machine learning way - the system tries to guess what you will like and acts accordingly. It uses implicit feedback too, so it tracks your clicks and tries to learn from it, but you can always see how it learned and what it thinks about you in the sliders.
Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#6I'm a founder of jaanix. Just a bit of background - jaanix is not a regular social news site. First of all everything is personalized - and not just by tweaking some settings or selecting your favorite tags, but in a machine learning way - the system tries to guess what you will like and acts accordingly. It uses implicit feedback too, so it tracks your clicks and tries to learn from it, but you can always see how it…
The main purpose of the site is to let you find stuff that you will not find on other popularity based systems. I find stuff that is on the front page of digg or reddit almost 100% noise, at the same time, the posts that I care about are buried or ignored by the majority. jaanix is not a democracy, it is more of a trading place for links. Your reputation matters, your feedback matters, the quality of the links matters. In return jaanix will try to give you stories just for you.
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#7Jaanix is a segway into a broader platform. It's great but needs work.
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#8Jaanix is a segway into a broader platform. It's great but needs work.
What?
Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#9There is an interesting idea growing bigger and bigger in recent months.
Some say that proliferation of feedback-based recommendation engines and machine learning algorithms for predicting "what I may like to read next" is bad for our society, because eventually people will be revolving in their own little narrow worlds of interests, reading/watching/listening same stuff without exposure to anything new, disruptive and mind-stimulating.
Many Americans are already largely ignorant of what's going on in the world partly due to CNN+friends that have been doing somewhat similar "content suggestion" for years and now the matter will get only worse. People are being enabled to build these "walls of ignorance" around themselves.
From personal experience, it is especially noticeable with music: if it wasn't for my friends who introduce me to their music, I'd still be listening to the same old stuff (or similar, coming from suggestions on sites like Pandora)
Re: What is your opinion on Jaanix? Does it work for you? Is it better than reddit?
#10There is an interesting idea growing bigger and bigger in recent months. Some say that proliferation of feedback-based recommendation engines and machine learning algorithms for predicting "what I may like to read next" is bad for our society, because eventually people will be revolving in their own little narrow worlds of interests, reading/watching/listening same stuff without exposure to anything new, disruptive a…
Agree, this is why I do not use pandora or findory.
If you teach jaanix that you like new and mind-stimulating things, it will find things that are new to you. It even lets you stretch the limits of your comfort zone with sliders.