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Comment author: gwern 08 January 2013 05:52:05PM *  4 points [-]

In descending order (reviews on Goodreads):

  • Cleckley, The Mask of Sanity
  • Hoffer, The True Believer
  • Huxley, The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell
  • Montfort, 10 Print Chr$(205.5+rnd(1)); Goto 10
  • Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
  • Good, Good Thinking: The Foundations of Probability and Its Applications
Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 08 January 2013 09:05:42PM 3 points [-]

Out of curiosity - you've ranked a lot of books on Goodreads. How well does its recommendations algorithm work for you?

Comment author: gwern 08 January 2013 10:02:20PM 14 points [-]

Terrible. Their search is also pretty bad (colons, for some reason, are magical characters that make perfectly spelled titles match nothing at all).

Comment author: Jabberslythe 08 January 2013 10:19:43PM 3 points [-]

I've ranked about 500 as well and I also think the recommendation system sucks. The most common explanation it gives for a book recommendation is that I've added some other individual book. I would want it to give me recommendation based off of multiple books based off of what people on the site who also liked those same books also liked. It also almost never updates.

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