About 80% of the hours people stream on Netflix start with a pick the app made, not a search.
M6 · What to Show Next
Your screen shows five things and the catalog holds millions, so something has to choose. This chapter builds that chooser from a small table of people and dishes that is mostly blanks. You will fill the blanks with the people most like you, then with two thin tables of taste numbers, then with a map where people and things live together. Then the hard part: clicks that lie, scores that shine offline and flop in a real test, and a feed that slowly teaches you what it already believed.
- Too Much to Show
- Near Tastes
- People Like You
- Two Thin Tables
- Fitting Only What You Know
- A Map of Taste
- The Dish Nobody Has Rated
- A Click Is Not a Like
- Find, Then Rank
- Scoring a List
- Offline Wins, Online Losses
- The Feed That Feeds Itself
- Varied, New and Fair
- One Space for Search and Suggestions