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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 3
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      Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Amy "Social Distancing" Hoy

      The Kindle is the worst designed product that I can’t live without, and I have often thought that it was made in a vaccuum by people who, and I do not mean this as a judgment I mean it as description, do not read books.https://twitter.com/amyhoy/status/1213178482567475200 …

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      Amy "Social Distancing" Hoy @amyhoy
      kindle also doesn’t understand that people re-read books. or let you browse by author. or even amazon’s own categories. bc why? why exert any effort at all into your product? just slap a shitty list on it, it’s fine
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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 3
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      It took them something like five years to implement “You have just completed the 2nd book in Game of Thrones. We have used Sophisticated Machine Learning to predict that there is a possibility, however slight, that your next book might be...”

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        1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 3
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          It’s also impossible to do even the most basic possible library management and/or searching by other than words, like “I want to give my friend a reading list about the financial crisis; show me all the books I’ve read about it.”

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        2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 3
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          The 1st book in Game of Thrones! ML FTW!

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        3. atishayokti‏ @atishayokti Jan 3
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          I once bought a washing machine on Amazon. For a few months after that, I kept getting email ads for ... similar washing machines. I guess ML figured I must be a washing machine collector. Who else buys one?

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        1. Ben Garvey‏ @bengarvey Jan 3
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          Once Amazon suggested I purchase a subscription to rechargeable batteries.

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        1. Brian Sierakowski‏ @bsierakowski Jan 3
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          If kindle understood that books sometimes come in series that'd be a huge improvement! Also, great for sales when a new entry to the series gets dropped to market to everyone who reads the series, and, I'm always double and triple checking that I'm buying the right # book.

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        1. David Cournapeau‏ @cournape Jan 3
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          I am pretty sure it took them that long because they rely on ML.

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        1. Aaron Gunderson‏ @agundy_ Jan 3
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          kobo does this really well. Collections and next book suggestions that make sense.

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        1. maxrosett‏ @maxrosett Jan 3
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          ... Fifty Shades of Grey. Throw out everything you know about the user and just go with the best seller on the platform. If management asks about it, just tell them your ML platform applies KNN with n=all kindle users.

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        1. Sandro‏ @sandrosc_ Jan 3
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          Youtube was the same joke for years

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        1. Sam‏ @samngibb Jan 3
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          Would be nice if it calculated the time to finish without including end notes

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