{"id":2214,"date":"2014-01-13T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T10:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/13\/on-the-other-hand-no-one-not-even-yellin-is\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:54","slug":"on-the-other-hand-no-one-not-even-yellin-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/13\/on-the-other-hand-no-one-not-even-yellin-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>On the other hand, no one \u2014 not even Yellin \u2014 is quite sure why there are so many altgenres that feature Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale. It\u2019s inexplicable with human logic. It\u2019s just something that happened. I tried on a bunch of different names for the Perry Mason thing: ghost, gremlin, not-quite-a-bug. What do you call the something-in-the-code-and-data which led to the existence of these microgenres? The vexing, remarkable conclusion is that when companies combine human intelligence and machine intelligence, some things happen that we cannot understand. \u201cLet me get philosophical for a minute. In a human world, life is made interesting by serendipity,\u201d Yellin told me. \u201cThe more complexity you add to a machine world, you\u2019re adding serendipity that you couldn\u2019t imagine. Perry Mason is going to happen. These ghosts in the machine are always going to be a by-product of the complexity. And sometimes we call it a bug and sometimes we call it a feature.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/01\/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood\/282679\/\">How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood &#8211; Alexis C. Madrigal &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>This piece on Netflix\u2019s altgenres is a solid bit of reporting on the intersection of tech and culture, although it never really gets very adventurous\u2014until the very end. Perry Mason as an emergent property of the service\u2019s hybrid approach to recommendations. Just delicious.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the other hand, no one \u2014 not even Yellin \u2014 is quite sure why there are so many altgenres that feature Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale. It\u2019s inexplicable with human logic. It\u2019s just something that happened. I tried on a bunch of different names for the Perry Mason thing: ghost, gremlin, not-quite-a-bug. What do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/13\/on-the-other-hand-no-one-not-even-yellin-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}