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Incorporating Machine Learning into Firefox 2.0?
blakeross asks: "I will be doing research this summer at Stanford with Professor Andrew Ng about how we can incorporate machine learning into Firefox. As we work to finish up Firefox 1.0, we're also seeking ideas that will make Firefox 2.0 blow every other browser out of the water. People who come up with the best 3-5 ideas that involve the use of machine learning will win Gmail accounts, and if we implement your idea you'll be acknowledged in both our paper and in Firefox credits. Your idea will also be appreciated by the millions of people who use Firefox. We'll also entertain Thunderbird proposals. See my weblog post for more details; I'll read all comments posted in response to this story or to my weblog."
What every ham-fisted slow typing slashdoter wants. Auto Frist Potsing!
Right now one of the major faults with internet searching is that search engines must make their decisions on what pages to show up based soley on what we type at that moment, completely ignoring the results we've previously chosen. Of course we don't want them to change this behavior since that would have the potential for a major privacy invasion. The solution, have the browser (ie firefox) keep this info locally, then, in a way to make sure the person does not confuse these with the original search engine results, have the browser resort the results based on your past actions. For example if I'm searching for internet browsers that IE link would drop right off the front page along with that iCab link that is in a different language since I don't use either IE nor another language. When I search for midi examples it will promote pages with source code showing me how to write various midi related code over pages with midi tunes. Just think of all the useless results you have to parse through every time you make a certain type of search that aren't always easy to get rid of using '-'.
I stole this Sig
what is machine learning?