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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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13 July 2004 - 3:41 pm
Amazon.com recommendations are the silliest things. All their recommendations seem to fall into two categories. In the first category, they like to recommend things to you that you already own. "Oh look, you bought a Leatherman. Based on this purchase, we think you should buy this other Leatherman." Call that the too similar category. At the other extreme is the not similar enough category. In this category fall things like recommending Barbie dolls based on your purchase of a graphing calculator. Well today I saw a recommendation that fell into the latter category. At least they were recommending a book based on a book purchase, but I really don't see how The Physics of Information Technology has anything to do with Bill Clinton's autobiography:
Posted by on 13 July 2004 at 3:41 PM
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Right, and if you buy one CS book they find some other CS book because it must be just as good. At least they have everything I've ever wanted to buy.
Posted by rkc on 17 July 2004 - 11:54 PM
Yeah, I bought a textbook from them once, so now they recommend every new CS textbook that comes out. They need to differentiate between "bought this because I was interested in it" and "bought this because the professor made me even though we never opened it or used it for class".
Posted by Chris Hill Festival on 18 July 2004 - 10:57 AM