{"id":64,"date":"2026-02-20T03:45:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my-mix-journal.brchad.com\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:15:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my-mix-journal.brchad.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am one of those people that listen to music via Youtube. Some people get it, some don\u2019t, there\u2019s nothing I can do about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyways, Youtube has an ever-evolving algorithm to recommend stuff it thinks you might be interested in. It pushes new content on users so they increase their watch time. The more they watch, more ads are shown, more money is made by Youtube,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Music algorithms are a little different. In my experience they are much more conservative and tend to show stuff you already like, in other words, videos you\u2019ve seen before. Also, if you watch anything with your account logged in the algorithms will consider it important, specially if it is something new. This creates a curious dynamic: algorithm tweaking.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Algorithm Tweaking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Algorithm tweaking is the process of intentionally influencing your algorithmic recommendations by strategically selecting the content you interact with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds fancy but in this particular case, Youtube\u2019s \u201cMy Mix\u201d recommendations, it is something we all do. We avoid clicking on songs we don\u2019t want to hear again either because it was from a cringier moment in our lives, or some other unpleasant motives. Somehow we feel the need to listen to that song, that shameful song. By some strange reason we crave for some bad tunes. So we listen on a private window so to not taint our pristine song recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So\u2026 about this blog<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We have a wide range of interests and our tastes change overtime. Sometimes my \u201cMy Mix\u201d playlist has cute songs on ukulele next in queue with Heavy metal songs about death and war next to some cover of a videogame theme next to an acoustic rendition of a popular song. I find these juxtapositions quite funny without context, but they make total sense to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blog is a record of this ever-changing playlist and should reflect, in some degree, changes in my personal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caio Amaral<\/a>
Creative Programmer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.S.: This blog used to be published on tumblr until February 20th, 2026. The old blog is still up<\/a> for archival reasons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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