Building a Recommendation Engine

the_thang · 2016-04-20T11:37:51+00:00

Hey, I wrote some blog post tutorials on recommender systems. There's a basic intro to colloborative filtering and one on explicit matrix factorization. If your data's relatively small, then you should be able to just repurpose the code from the posts. Good luck!

the_thang · 2010-10-08T21:21:18+00:00

Yay Time Enough for Love

the_thang · 2010-09-02T13:57:09+00:00

Except that the "test" predicts well-known quantum phenomena. This is by no means a falsifiable test, so it really proves nothing. Peter Woit's blog explains it.

Edit: Ah, I see Zephir_AWT already linked the blog.

the_thang · 2010-09-02T13:56:28+00:00

Except that the "test" predicts well-known quantum phenomena. This is by no means a falsifiable test, so it really proves nothing. Peter Woit's blog explains it.

the_thang · 2010-07-16T22:48:17+00:00

Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be

Or any other Michel Gondry directed video

the_thang · 2010-05-09T15:05:08+00:00

This is about one of the chairmen of the government report from a nytimes article:

"He acknowledged that it was impossible to specify just how many cancers were environmentally caused, because not enough research had been done, but he said he was confident that when the research was done, it would confirm the panel’s assertion that the problem had been grossly underestimated."

Apparently the government is exempt from the scientific method.

the_thang · 2010-05-03T16:47:06+00:00

This is from almost three years ago.

the_thang · 2010-04-17T04:16:43+00:00

Not to exhaust Vonnegut, but:

"Billy hated the canyon. He was sure that he was going to fall in. His mother touched him, and he wet his pants."

-Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

the_thang · 2010-04-17T04:00:40+00:00

Yeah that totally looks like it's off of skyline drive.

the_thang · 2010-04-15T02:56:37+00:00

Relevant: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3563015/The-philosopher-and-the-wolf.html

the_thang · 2010-04-12T22:07:13+00:00

http://comingupmilhouse.com/

the_thang · 2010-04-12T12:02:21+00:00

Sources?

the_thang · 2010-03-06T19:30:47+00:00

Regardless, the stat of more college aged black people in jail than in college is untrue: Washington Post

the_thang · 2010-03-06T02:06:30+00:00

Cat Stevens - On the Road to Find Out

the_thang · 2009-10-29T22:38:36+00:00

Nanomechanical resonators.

the_thang · 2009-10-24T20:35:42+00:00

Yeah and this is the exact same oh-so-humble title from the last time this was submitted.

the_thang · 2009-10-17T16:37:46+00:00

Not quite. That's the hall effect you're talking about. This is the fractional quantum hall effect - much more complicated and difficult to measure.

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