Karl Higley

I build recommender systems that work for actual people. Aspirational cyclist. Actual dog person. Suspiciously majestic. Not even remotely neurotypical.

I run RecSys.social. I don’t accept follow requests from accounts without a bio or profile picture.

2025-06-29
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2025-06-28

reaching the age where day drinking is a lot less appealing than day sleeping

2025-06-27

The Bear continues to be really really good

2025-06-25

There are few things more fun than watching someone see the results of their own work for the first time and slowly realize “hey, that’s pretty good actually!”

2025-06-24

New brainwave: plum-chipotle jam

2025-06-23

@dramypsyd Taylor says you should follow her example and take it easy until you feel better

A black and brindle dog with white patches and a nose stripe resting on a carpeted stair step
2025-06-22

not big on deliberate contact with grass, but “pet dog” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. imma do that anyway

2025-06-21

@ryan The Martian. Seen it so many times, still good for a rewatch.

2025-06-21

In case you missed it, Yandex recently released a large scale music recommendation dataset with 5B events, audio embeddings, and an organic interaction flag:

arxiv.org/abs/2505.22238
huggingface.co/datasets/yandex

#RecSys

A picture of the first page of the Yamba-5B dataset paper
2025-06-20

@jbz vaporwhenhouse

2025-06-19

@madeline_pc these are from circa 1800 so there’s not much gunpowder smell left, but they’re an important source of neighborhood social information (for dogs)

2025-06-19

“let’s go sniff some cannons, huh?” is a thing i just said in total seriousness (to the dog)

2025-06-19

sage or jester? maybe it depends on the day

2025-06-18

@Unixbigot Ubaboo 🧦👃🤢

2025-06-16

legitimately pining for the fjords this evening

2025-06-16

I never watched Lost when it came out so I have no particular associations with it beyond The Discourse, but I saw someone say it watches differently in the streaming era so I’m giving it a try.

Initial impression of Season 1: perfect show to leave on all day while doing other things. A whole lot of nothing happens very slowly in every episode.

2025-06-09

@Lana I think there might be a typo in the section about pink

2025-06-09

Only in #LosAngeles: the mayor suggested in her press conference just now that blocking a freeway is a form of violence.

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