Comments on: On Courage and Netflix http://www.allaboutbalance.com/on-courage-and-netflix/ On Usability, Agility and Technology Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:23:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike Berggren http://www.allaboutbalance.com/on-courage-and-netflix/comment-page-1/#comment-1632 Mike Berggren Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:42:06 +0000 http://www.allaboutbalance.com/?p=412#comment-1632 Ahh, you've come across one of my greatest pet peeves with collaborative filtering in general -- the blatant inefficiency of the system. Mathematical algorithms aside, most systems that try to leverage CF either: 1) Make no assumptions (defeating most use cases) or 2) Try for a "blended" recommendation approach that is equally awful. I hope it improves at some point but I suspect it won't any time soon... Ahh, you’ve come across one of my greatest pet peeves with collaborative filtering in general — the blatant inefficiency of the system. Mathematical algorithms aside, most systems that try to leverage CF either:

1) Make no assumptions (defeating most use cases)

or

2) Try for a “blended” recommendation approach that is equally awful.

I hope it improves at some point but I suspect it won’t any time soon…

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