Sky suggestions

[dormouse1953]

Sky television has a "suggestions" facility.  For each item you've set to record in your planner it'll come up with half a dozen suggestions that are supposed to be similar to what you have selected.

On the whole, I can understand most of the suggestions even if I've already seen them or don't want to watch.  However, I've just noticed one suggestion that has me beat.  I've  been watching episodes of The Wild, Wild West, an American series from the 1960s that is getting repeated on the Horror Channel.  It's about two secret service agents operating during the time of President Grant, the early 1870s.  The villains they are up again often have advanced technology so today it might even be classed as early steampunk.

I can sort of see why among the suggestions is 3:10 to Yuma and The Misfits (the Monroe/Gable film) as they are all Westerns of a sort, and Dick Tracy has the gadgetry.

But why is it suggesting Battleship Potemkin, the Eisenstein film about the 1905 Russian mutiny?

Comments

[drplokta]

Regardless of the exact implementation details of the algorithm, Battleship Potemkin sounds to me like something you might like to watch, so I'd say that it's working.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

Indeed it is. Seen it many times.

When I first started ordering stuff from Amazon, many years ago, I got recommendations for Harry Potter books and Anthony Beevor's book about Stalingrad. All things I might want to read, but how they worked that out from my ordering CDs of music by Elgar, Schoenberg and Berg I'll never know.

[dan-golem.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a short scene in Potemkin showing some sort of clockwork metal bird? Chicken? Eagle? Or did I dream it?

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

I think you dreamed it.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Because it's set in the past?