Most recommendations use the assumption that the user's need is the same at every point in time. This is why it doesn't work most of the time.

I think it's strange recommendation systems don't ask more about the context.

The answer to 'How do you feel today' can result in a total different playlist.

Or a python programmer who also likes snakes might want to set the context before a search (in DDG you can).

"Running a logistic regression might be too informed a baseline and can become a long drawn process."

What does this mean? To me it implies logistic regression is already so good that its hard to see the difference between it and most recommender systems. In which case, unless you're operating at massive scale, you can just go with logistic regression

Depending on the size of the company (Revenue), and where / how the recommender system sits within the customer experience; Logistic regression could be fine. An even better baseline if discovery isn't so important for a good CX is to go with most popular and or a vendor. Building these systems used to be about getting lots of different things to work together which eats up a lot of time, and capacity (Product, UX, Eng) and it may not get the appropriate return.

Logistic regression is a really good method and takes time to get right. But it is indeed one of the most performant models in multiple companies

How about this-- give me a sticky toggle to switch to a dumb sorted list-- other channel content, alphabetical etc.

That at least lets the user run the experiment on themselves to check if the recommendation algo makes them sad.

The fact that the sentence above is based on a real thing Facebook did to its unwitting users speaks volumes about our shitty timeline.

You want a “dumb sorted list” of every video on YouTube?

The better analogy on the YouTube side is the chronological subscribed channels feed: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

A dumb sorted list matching some criteria set by the user, like search results?

Please correct the title. It's "advice", not "advises".

Advise is a verb. It reads as if an organization called "Practical" is advising on something.

Edit: advice, no need for plural as in advices

Genuinely not snarking, but isn't it just 'advice'?

Indeed, "advice" is a mass noun, so it has no plural form. It's just like "rice".

One grain of rice -> one piece of advice

Lots of rice -> Lots of advice

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/eb/qa/When-to-Use-Advi...

Thanks for this

Even better then

Made the change in the post. Thanks for this. Not able to change it here.