what do you think of the book itself (Programming Collective Intelligence)? It might be just me but I found the book fairly useless. All the author does is tak

what do you think of the book itself (Programming Collective Intelligence)? It might be just me but I found the book fairly useless. All the author does is take some ultra basic AI/Machine Learning algorithms and build some bare bones web 2.0 type scenarios around it. The chapters on neural networks, svms and decision trees struck me as particularly primitive. A lot of additional work would need to be done (e.g: nomalizing data for the NNs) before those algorithms would be useful in a real world context. An ok book if you know nothing at all about AI/machine learning. I wonder how much value it actually provides. I might be missing something. If you think so feel free to correct me.