I’m often pleasantly surprised by the accuracy of the algorithms employed by Amazon, Netflix, Itunes, et al., and was just yesterday telling someone about how annoying it is having to click “I already own this” on my Amazon suggestions so often in order to get it to recommend anything I don’t already have.

On a loosely related note, today I stumbled upon a listing titled The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition (Hardcover) and couldn’t help but think of the phrase intellectual masturbation… the book’s title is a seven word synonym for ”Graphs”… then it occurred to me that I got to the listing from a link on my page of recommendations.

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