"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, 5 March 2019 12:10:19 UTC, michael adams wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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I was ordering some MC3008 's and RS think drill bits are frequently ordered with
them, Weird.

anyone else noticed any strange bought together items.


https://www.dropbox.com/s/4cpq58f060...54.21.png?dl=0


That will probably be because an inventory code of one of those
items is similar or identical to the inventory code of an item
which it would actually have matched,

Inventory codes may or not be assigned sequentially as new items
are added to the stock

The customer buys on the description or product code, not
the inventory code so any discrepancy should show up prior to
the sale or despatch,

To me it shows that AI and/or similar is only as good as the data you throw at it.
So this shows a flawed system that needs changing a system set up by a human.



The "likes" will be determined solely by the inventory codes of
pairs of items bought previously,

what's likes got to do with it ? There''s no like button

On other sites it would be a "you might also like" prompt."

Same thing.

not by the product descriptions
or codes as the latter are determined by manufacturers and may come
in different formats. Whereas RS can use whatever format they like
for their inventory code for their internal operations which among
other things makes generating likes easier.

But totally screws with what most people would use the frequently purchsed
together actually means or meant to mean.

But only in this case because there's been a mismatch which is probably
quite rare. And can provide some innoocent amusement until a wet blanket
like me shows up.

There's actually proper names for this a) where theres a totally
arbitrary relationship between numbers and the things they
represent and b) what happens when things go wrong.
Offhand I've forgotten what they are.



michael adams

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