Something's wrong here. I was very excited to explore this, until I searched for "Getting Things Done" by David Allen. A nearby book - "Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again" by Donald J. Trump.
A visual book recommender
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#42The gang of four design patterns book being two away from a MAGA book is funny.
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#43similiar t-SNE visualisation, just for papers:
https://static.nomic.ai/pubmed.html
running on their deepscatter visualization engine:
https://github.com/nomic-ai/deepscatter
that keeps things dynamic for rendering
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#44Cool visualization, but the model needs work. The closest book to "Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets" is "The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners".
Hypothesis: the sort of person who reads "The Victorian...", is likely to both like Harry Potter books, and also to review them enthusiastically online. The typical HP child reader, does not review books online. Just an hypothesis.
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#45Reminds me of https://www.literature-map.com Which is a map of all authors in the world sorted by overlap in readership. I found some of my favorite writers by browsing it. I wonder which approach is better suited to find something that is spot on to my interests. When I think of my favorite books, they usually are the most popular books of their authors. Are there any counterexamples, where an author wrote a book th…
> Are there any counterexamples, where an author wrote a book that is more profound than their biggest hit but got overlooked for some reason?
Any reply is going to be somewhat subjective, but All Systems Red is not even in my top 5 books by Martha Wells...
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#46Cool visualization, but the model needs work. The closest book to "Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets" is "The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners".
I have a theory (after having searched for The Diamond Age) that certain very popular books are ironically not going to be close to similar books because they appear on so many varied reading lists. There's probably a graph theory phenomena that describes what I'm thinking.
IIRC you could do pretty okay in Netflix's recommendation contest by ignoring what an individual likes and just recommending the stuff that "everybody" likes.
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#47I think that people in general don't read "enough", or maybe can't "enough." By that I mean, recommendations based on other people's reading habits aren't going to be as fine tuned as say, recommendations based on people's music listening habits.
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#48Reminds me of https://www.literature-map.com Which is a map of all authors in the world sorted by overlap in readership. I found some of my favorite writers by browsing it. I wonder which approach is better suited to find something that is spot on to my interests. When I think of my favorite books, they usually are the most popular books of their authors. Are there any counterexamples, where an author wrote a book th…
Stella Gibbons is basically only known for Cold Comfort Farm, but IMO many of her other things are better, although in a different way. My favourite is Pure Juliet, which is a beautifully gentle portrayal of someone who is on the Autism spectrum, written before Autism was really a thing that people talked about.
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#49Really cool!
Reminds me a lot of some of the stuff I used to work on at Steam Labs: https://store.steampowered.com/labs
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#50I'm astonished by how well this works. I looked for a bunch of books I'd read recently and kept finding other books I've read or want to read near them.