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how is it much different from the ranking engines netflix and amazon use?

• noglorp 15y ago
  In those cases, users purely receive recommendations for media/products. In this case, users receive recommendations for other users to follow as well.
• rorrr 15y ago
  You can calculate the "weight" of the movie for a given user once. The number of movies is very low, compared to the number of stories on reddit. Whatever that guy is proposing is an insanely complex dynamic system. I'm not saying it's not doable, I'm just saying it's very expensive.
  • a3camero 15y ago
    It might be less complicated then you'd expect (at least one way of doing it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering The core idea is linear regression. Here's Google's service: http://code.google.com/apis/predict/ http://code.google.com/apis/predict/. Here's a commercial API service: http://www.directededge.com/ http://www.directededge.com/.