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peter bb91d0a22d refactor(discover): both affinities weigh a watch by one rule
The YouTube channel affinity and the Plex one each had the recency decay, the undated-watch rule and
the scale to the strongest; app.draw now holds them. Tests hold that another user's history leans
neither draw, the rail's blind slot, and that a show leans on show recommendations.
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"""A weighted draw that stays a surprise: what "Surprise me" deals from.
A title's chance to come first is its weight over the pool's (Efraimidis–Spirakis: order by
-ln(1-u)/w, u uniform per row). The weight is 1 + the title's affinity to what the user watches
(`plex.affinity`, `discover.queries`), so a title nobody leans towards still comes up — only less
often. Two things keep it a surprise rather than a ranking:
- **u is the seed's md5 of the row's key**, the Home surprise's seeded order. With every weight 1
the order is exactly that md5 order, so a user with no history sees the unweighted draw, and one
seed still moves both sources of the Home hero together. A draw that is not seeded (the Plex
Discover rail) takes u from random().
- **One slot of three is blind** (`blend`): dealt from the unweighted order, so the same few
favourites cannot fill the rail.
The YouTube surprise draws over a window of the feed scope rather than all of it (`yt_surprise`):
the window is read in SQL, and `shuffled` / `leaning` order it here with the same u.
Both affinities weigh a watch by `recency` and score against the strongest with `scaled`, so the two
sources lean by one rule.
"""
import hashlib
import math
from collections.abc import Callable, Hashable
from datetime import datetime
from typing import Any
from sqlalchemy import BigInteger, Float, cast, func, literal
from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import BIT
from sqlalchemy.orm import InstrumentedAttribute
from sqlalchemy.sql.elements import ColumnElement
# 2**32: the first 8 hex digits of an md5 as a fraction of one.
_SPAN = 4294967296.0
# A watch with no date (an old import) counts as one this many half-lives ago.
UNDATED_HALF_LIVES = 2
def recency(watched_at: datetime | None, now: datetime, half_life_days: float) -> float:
"""A watch's weight in an affinity: 1 now, half as much every `half_life_days`."""
if watched_at is None:
return 0.5**UNDATED_HALF_LIVES
return 0.5 ** (max(0.0, (now - watched_at).total_seconds() / 86400) / half_life_days)
def scaled(scores: dict[str, float]) -> dict[str, float]:
"""Each score over the strongest, so the strongest is 1; empty when nothing scored."""
top = max(scores.values(), default=0.0)
return {k: v / top for k, v in scores.items()} if top else {}
def seeded_u(
key: ColumnElement[Any] | InstrumentedAttribute[Any], seed: int
) -> ColumnElement[float]:
"""A uniform u in [0, 1) per row, from md5(key || seed) — the order `md5(...)` ascending gives."""
digest = func.md5(func.concat(key, str(seed)))
head = cast(cast(literal("x") + func.substr(digest, 1, 8), BIT(32)), BigInteger)
return cast(head, Float) / _SPAN
def weighted_key(u: ColumnElement[float], weight: ColumnElement[float]) -> ColumnElement[float]:
"""The row's place in a weighted draw, ascending: -ln(1-u)/w. Monotonic in u when every w is 1,
so the unweighted order is unchanged."""
return -func.ln(1.0 - u) / weight
def random_u() -> ColumnElement[float]:
return func.random()
def u_of(key: str, seed: int) -> float:
"""`seeded_u` in Python: the same u for the same key and seed."""
return int(hashlib.md5(f"{key}{seed}".encode()).hexdigest()[:8], 16) / _SPAN
def shuffled(items: list, seed: int, key: Callable[[Any], str]) -> list:
"""`items` in the seed's md5 order — the order `ORDER BY md5(key || seed)` gives."""
return sorted(items, key=lambda it: hashlib.md5(f"{key(it)}{seed}".encode()).hexdigest())
def leaning(
items: list, seed: int, key: Callable[[Any], str], weight: Callable[[Any], float]
) -> list:
"""`items` in the weighted draw's order (`weighted_key` in Python), ties in the md5 order."""
order = {key(it): i for i, it in enumerate(shuffled(items, seed, key))}
return sorted(
items,
key=lambda it: (-math.log(1.0 - u_of(key(it), seed)) / weight(it), order[key(it)]),
)
def blend(
weighted: list, blind: list, offset: int, n: int, key: Callable[[Any], Hashable] = lambda x: x
) -> list:
"""`n` picks: slot i comes from `blind` when (i + offset) % 3 == 0, else from `weighted`, each
skipping what an earlier slot took (`key` tells two picks apart). A side that runs out leaves the
rest to the other."""
out: list = []
taken: set = set()
sources = (iter(weighted), iter(blind))
def nxt(source):
for item in source:
if key(item) not in taken:
return item
return None
for i in range(n):
first, second = (sources[1], sources[0]) if (i + offset) % 3 == 0 else sources
item = nxt(first)
if item is None:
item = nxt(second)
if item is None:
break
taken.add(key(item))
out.append(item)
return out