A New Architecture Of Algorithms: Could Trajectory Make Books ‘Discoverable’ At Last?

A two-year-old company in Boston called Trajectory has created what it says is a way for readers to discover the books they love - and the books that authors, agents, and publishers want them to read.

If you're in publishing, you're now sitting up. A bona fide, actionable answer to the dilemma termed "discoverability" for books could be industry-changing.

Is Trajectory it?

There's about a weeklong crash course in luminous, sexy technical power of the tf-idf/cosine-similarity kind behind all this. At its outer reaches, this could get very Minority Report.