Thursday, April 3, 2008

New Version of UC Berkley's Joke Recommender

  This article describes UC Berkley's joke recommender and the updates that were just released.  Two pieces of software were released into new versions.  EigenTaste is now in version 5 and Jester is now version 4.  The system now has over 4 million ratings.  The article is an elementary look at this collaborative filtering algorithm run system.  It does describe the features and some of the jokes. ;)  Prof. Ken Goldberg notes that the engine can be applied to anything with large inventories.  Donation Dashboard is one other application that he mentions.  I seem to remember talking about this earlier in the semester.  Is that right?

  I have noticed a trend in systems I've read about recently.  Taking into account the user's most recent input seems to be popular.



The article: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26480

The Slasdot article: http://idle.slashdot.org/idle/08/03/31/1633223.shtml 

The updated software: http://eigentaste.berkeley.edu/info.php


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