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kingsley_20 on April 17, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Caterina Fake shares some Hunch data

Recommender systems are hard to do even within domains with well understood semantics. Applying them broadly across all human decisions seems to be a bit of stretch. Makes for very amusing anecdotes though.

dmix on April 18, 2009 [–]

Starting with a simple system + lots of traffic is a good start. They can reiterate until it works.

From my understanding network effects have a positive influence on expert systems.

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