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It never worked for me unfortunately.

Me neither.

I wonder why it didn't work. They certainly have enough of a dataset to play with by now. I wonder if it's computationally too intensive to continually update each user's results, or too difficult to come up with a good algorithm.

Does this "recommended page" problem bear any resemblance to the Netflix prize problem?

Creating a good recommended page would certainly lure me back to reddit.

I don't think the founders have much of an incentive to change reddit a whole lot. Also, the existing algorithm is definitely computationally intensive: it takes 12 seconds to generate a new recommended page.

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