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ReadWriteWeb — “3 Interesting Reads on Recommendation Systems”

This week, Greg Linden noticed a conference paper that reveals that YouTube is using Amazon.com‘s recommendation engine to power its own recommendations. Last week, Fast Company ran an article about how a former Amazon.com engineer is trying to help discover a better recommendation engine than his former employer. And we rediscovered a tutorial from way … Continue Reading

A response to “A Guide to Recommender Systems”

Richard MacManus published a post on ReadWriteWeb on Monday (which was re-published in the NYTimes) titled “A Guide to Recommender Systems;” this post is a reply. I’m excited to see a conversation around recommender systems that delves deeper into the different approaches to recommending products. There are some folks who follow the misconception that all … Continue Reading