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by crmd 1732 days ago
It seems to me that YouTube is doing complex bucket testing with the recommendation algorithm. Some days, my recommendation list is full of obscure-but-relevant-to-my interests content that would require legitimate ML to populate, and then the next day my feed is basically

  SELECT DISTINCT videos.* 
  FROM videos, followers 
  WHERE videos.creator=followers.creator
  AND followers.user = $ME