CineGeist: A Movie Recommender for People Who Can't Describe Their Taste
I built a movie recommender for people who can't describe their own taste, a dead feature taught me a lot about dense vector spaces.
It is often difficult for people (me) to say what films they really like when asked. It's not a malicious lie, but something that is born out of chronic indecisiveness. Most often we find ourselves saying things like "I like action thrillers", or "I'm open to everything". Finally, when a film that is well received is put-on, I find myself on the phone thirty minutes in.
Being an unreliable narrator of your own taste is part of human nature. But it is much easier to choose between two films when given concrete options, an answer comes almost instantly and with confidence. This gap of being bad at describing taste, but great at choosing from options is the entire premise of this project. It is an idea...
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