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Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically

Posted by timothy on from the infallible-is-a-very-strong-word dept.

destinyland writes "A year ago, Aaron Stanton harangued Google over his new project, a web site analyzing patterns in books to generate infallible recommendations. In March he finally finished a prototype which he showed to Google, Yahoo, and Amazon, and he's just announced that he's finally received a big contract which 'gives us a great deal of potential data to work with.' The 25-year-old's original prototype examined over 200 books, plotting 729,000 data points across 30,293 scenes — but its universe of analyzed novels is about to become much, much bigger."

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  1. It already exists. by Ironchew · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only infallible book recommendation has existed for nearly 2000 years now.

    Don't want to read it? Heretic! But "translations" do exist for public convenience.

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