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I’m a big believer in human curators. Algorithms alone do a terrible job of predicting what will be interesting to readers.

Instapaper founder Marco Arment at Studiomates lunch (via curiositycounts)

If you replace “readers” with “listeners”… it’s the same dynamic. Humans matter.

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Most definitely yes.

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Yay. (via brysmi)

Posted by Stowe Boyd
May 25, 2011
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    Important note: Human curators doesn’t necessarily mean additional human labor.
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    A robot can’t feel, or believe, so how could it be interested? Humans FTW
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