There are algorithms already written that can incorporate serendipity (academic and corporate I'm sure). What this does is brings out the fray that may not have as many ratings, but has high ratings.
You can also throw collaborative filtering into the mix - "people who rated these items high have also rated XYZ high".
Pretty cool stuff, but it's expensive and takes a lot of ratings before things start to connect right. Not to mention the cost of running the database of ratings and then chugging real-time calculations on that data.
"Oh my god, look at that fucking jet on the news, it just tore right through all of that cement, glass, and steel"
I just finished reading a post on the internet that said we should turn the whole middle-east into a big bed of glass. I, like this individual so eloquently expressed, could really give a shit about the 'towelheads' that inhabit that said region. I mean come on, with their funny accents and beliefs, their petty little 'jehad' amongst each other that stem back to an orphan stealing a falafel pita in 890AD, their stinky farts, their monopoly on the taxi and convenient store ventures, and when they don't laugh at our fart jokes - how COULD we like the fuckers? At best, we have nothing in common with them, that right there causes unspoken concern and discomfort.
So what are we waiting for? All checks are a go sir, lock & load, fire when ready.... HOLD IT!!! How will we drive our fat asses to work tomorrow in our 8 cylinder SUV's? What will our heroic NASCAR drivers use to kill themselves in next year's Daytona? When we turn our thermostat to 90 degrees this winter when we are too lazy to get up and put on a freaking sweater - will we hear the furnace click? Where will the electricity be to feed my idiot box - and if you say coal - how will we get it from the mine to the power plant.. shit, how will we even mine the coal - you gonna go in there with a pick and shovel?
My bad, we need these stick wielding towelheads after all. As goofy as they are, I guess they really aren't that bad. Let us stop the descrimintation right here and now and take a moment to thank our stinky, headwrapped friends for all that they have given us. They are the suppliers of a resource that we require to sustain our American culture and economy - and boy do we pay them money for it. The profits they yield from our fat, minivan culture afford them to fund grateful gifts of appreciation... sometimes they are surprise gifts.. for instance, the flying tubes of this resource we received this week.
[end satire]
Actually we don't need oil. It will be hard and expensive, we might have to tighten our belts, but wouldn't it be nice to one day tell your boss to go fuck himself and that you won't be back? This shouldn't have been our wake up call! Yes, it's tragic - but it's similar to the war on drugs, un-preventable unless you stop the demand. "Looking at the big picture, what caused this?" is the question we should be asking, not "who did it? how many died? which desert are we going to turn to glass?". I've heard people (public officials) demanding changes to the cabin doors on planes and other similar 'solutions' - give me a fucking break, they'll coordinate a fleet of 25 fuel tankers to simultaneously drive into Manhattan from different bridges... boom - same effect.
We should be just as disgusted with ourselves as we are at the people who flew the plane into those buildings, and as a long term SOLUTION we should demand and volunteer more ACTION (not just funding) towards research of an alternative power to oil, and in the meantime, FUND THE SHIT OUT OF improving our current alternatives. If you must travel, please try your hardest to take public transportation. If you must drive, please do not support fuel inefficient vehicles... publicly ridicule those which do. To all those currently "bling blingin" in the Escalade, you know the thing drives like shit, sell it and spend it on jewelry or a big un-affordable house, maybe you'll make it on 'MTV cribs' some day. White people, cars racing around an oval track 500 times is not cool... I repeat - NOT COOL (repeated twice for NASCAR fans).
Look at how dependent we already are on this resource, and the supply definitely isn't getting larger. It's not money, you can't just print more when times get tight. Imagine how this incident will be dwarfed when we run out of this resource, it will be world chaos. This isn't a pollution preventing tree hugger thing, this is a life & death political issue that should be taken seriously. Think about this tonight.
We are the ones who funded this huge disaster, it was OUR ignorance and nothing else. Change is imminent.
PLEASE PRINT AND HAND THIS OUT IN YOUR CITY, THEY ARE ALREADY BEING CIRCULATED HEAVILY IN LOS ANGELES
Just a show from ZDnet that they can publish something non pro-MS. We all know Java is crap and it takes a god damn long time to get anything done in. Thanks ZDnet for the meaningless forecast.
The targeted advertisments will have to be promoting a product related to music in order to gain any benefit from a user's listening habits.
Almost all studies (formal, and my personal experiments) - show that there is almost no correlation between a person's taste in seperate categories (ie - people who like these books will like these kitchen utencils - based off of purchasing behavior.)
Collaborative filtering has been around for a while now and you would be amazed at the places it's evolved (personalized coupons on the back of your receipts at the grocery store). It's all apart of the retailer's plan to have "one view of their customers accross all channels". Is it a bad thing - depends on who you are I guess.
This whole emphasis on education is getting old. Everywhere I turn it's "Education Reform" this - "Digital Divide" that. It's stupid. I don't think we should keep forcing education in this country - we basically force feed it to unwilling children. I think it's about time the children take initiative to teach themselves.
Seriously - how many kids can you remember from high school that were really that interested most of the time - like 10 or 20 probably. And can you honestly say that grammar/highschool was much more than a fancy day-care center? For those of you that have gone to college - how many of you have walked into an undergrad class to find that the whole semester was a Japanese TA reading to you out of a book in a mono-tone broken English accent? I wasn't about to continue pay for that crap.
I think once you learn how to read and access resources - it should be up to the students to reach out for more. The current system is way too inefficient.
and yes, profitable communities online.
Heh - you mean like slashdot did?
Anyway - I haven't read this book, but I recommend any readers interested in the subject to check out Phil Greenspun's Online Book - he prefers some pretty whacky languages, servers, and databases - but he gets many ideas accross very clearly regardless.
You know.. you could have probably just linked to the article you pasted that from - it probably would have been a bit more effective rather than spamming us all.
You ever notice how snobby Flight Attendants are when you use your laptop on the plane? Whenever preparing to land or take off - they always come to laptop users first to say "time to shut that down now" - in their best stereotypical flight attendant voice. And then if it isn't off within like 30 seconds - they come back to you to re-assure their instructions.
I always do my best to annoy them back - I call them Stewardess's - "Excuse me, Stewardess? Yeah.. uhmmm.. I'm gonna have to ask you to get me another coke - thanks."
They hate to be called Stewardess - so I'm told, and by the look on their face when I say it - you can tell it irks them.
I know it's FAA regulation - but what is a laptop or a discman really going to do?
I think MS is too lenient on money hungry shitheads like Sun. They should end all support for anything Java related - they shouldn't even allow Java crapplets to run in their browser.
Like Sun, Oracle, or any other crap ass money hungry company wouldn't piss on Microsoft and leave them for bankruptcy if they had the chance. I don't want to sound too pro-MS here, but when I code in Java at my day job - everyday feels more and more like I am just using duck tape and bailing wire to create uglyness.
J2EE? What a bunch of marketing hype bullshit - I can't believe the industry standard is moving towards this bucket full of crap ass acronyms. Whenever I here a marketing person ask "will it be developed using the J2EE framework" - I want to slap the bitch 2 times with my open hand.
You've obviously only read a few articles relating to CF, and the first line of your post automatically assumes that the source is biased by potential advertisement oppurtunities (typical of the slashdot community)
a) Python, Perl: After reading 200 pages of your average "intro to perl" book - you're still just learning how to work with variables and strings - maybe some looping - still scratching your head wondering when they will get to tying this into your web site.
After reading 200 pages of your average "intro to CF" book - you're tying your web application into databases; writing transactional SQL code; using complex date, time, string, file manipulation, etc. functions and doing billable work while showing massive results. This is all while guillermo - the new perl guy - is trying to figure out why he is getting 'syntax error' when he is trying to parse a string.
b)In a real corporate environment, maintainability and portability would probably outshine all three, ruling CF and ASP out
use the fusebox methodology and you won't run into that. Your templates are included into the HTML as objects. Store all of your global variables in the application.cfm file and it will take you 2 seconds to take the whole application to another machine.
but then you will run into the same problem w/PHP.. a bunch of code that is not reusable.
The fusebox methodology of writing CF (or even php) applications greatly contradict this myth.
Slashdot Mirror
Serendipity.
There are algorithms already written that can incorporate serendipity (academic and corporate I'm sure). What this does is brings out the fray that may not have as many ratings, but has high ratings.
You can also throw collaborative filtering into the mix - "people who rated these items high have also rated XYZ high".
Pretty cool stuff, but it's expensive and takes a lot of ratings before things start to connect right. Not to mention the cost of running the database of ratings and then chugging real-time calculations on that data.
heheh - the old offline rpg is coming to life right before my very own eyes. When can I start swapping my eyes and arms for cyber replacements?
Re-evaluating Alternative Power
"Oh my god, look at that fucking jet on the news, it just tore right through all of that cement, glass, and steel"
I just finished reading a post on the internet that said we should turn the whole middle-east into a big bed of glass. I, like this individual so eloquently expressed, could really give a shit about the 'towelheads' that inhabit that said region. I mean come on, with their funny accents and beliefs, their petty little 'jehad' amongst each other that stem back to an orphan stealing a falafel pita in 890AD, their stinky farts, their monopoly on the taxi and convenient store ventures, and when they don't laugh at our fart jokes - how COULD we like the fuckers? At best, we have nothing in common with them, that right there causes unspoken concern and discomfort.
So what are we waiting for? All checks are a go sir, lock & load, fire when ready.... HOLD IT!!! How will we drive our fat asses to work tomorrow in our 8 cylinder SUV's? What will our heroic NASCAR drivers use to kill themselves in next year's Daytona? When we turn our thermostat to 90 degrees this winter when we are too lazy to get up and put on a freaking sweater - will we hear the furnace click? Where will the electricity be to feed my idiot box - and if you say coal - how will we get it from the mine to the power plant.. shit, how will we even mine the coal - you gonna go in there with a pick and shovel?
My bad, we need these stick wielding towelheads after all. As goofy as they are, I guess they really aren't that bad. Let us stop the descrimintation right here and now and take a moment to thank our stinky, headwrapped friends for all that they have given us. They are the suppliers of a resource that we require to sustain our American culture and economy - and boy do we pay them money for it. The profits they yield from our fat, minivan culture afford them to fund grateful gifts of appreciation... sometimes they are surprise gifts
[end satire]
Actually we don't need oil. It will be hard and expensive, we might have to tighten our belts, but wouldn't it be nice to one day tell your boss to go fuck himself and that you won't be back? This shouldn't have been our wake up call! Yes, it's tragic - but it's similar to the war on drugs, un-preventable unless you stop the demand. "Looking at the big picture, what caused this?" is the question we should be asking, not "who did it? how many died? which desert are we going to turn to glass?". I've heard people (public officials) demanding changes to the cabin doors on planes and other similar 'solutions' - give me a fucking break, they'll coordinate a fleet of 25 fuel tankers to simultaneously drive into Manhattan from different bridges... boom - same effect.
We should be just as disgusted with ourselves as we are at the people who flew the plane into those buildings, and as a long term SOLUTION we should demand and volunteer more ACTION (not just funding) towards research of an alternative power to oil, and in the meantime, FUND THE SHIT OUT OF improving our current alternatives. If you must travel, please try your hardest to take public transportation. If you must drive, please do not support fuel inefficient vehicles... publicly ridicule those which do. To all those currently "bling blingin" in the Escalade, you know the thing drives like shit, sell it and spend it on jewelry or a big un-affordable house, maybe you'll make it on 'MTV cribs' some day. White people, cars racing around an oval track 500 times is not cool... I repeat - NOT COOL (repeated twice for NASCAR fans).
Look at how dependent we already are on this resource, and the supply definitely isn't getting larger. It's not money, you can't just print more when times get tight. Imagine how this incident will be dwarfed when we run out of this resource, it will be world chaos. This isn't a pollution preventing tree hugger thing, this is a life & death political issue that should be taken seriously. Think about this tonight.
We are the ones who funded this huge disaster, it was OUR ignorance and nothing else. Change is imminent.
PLEASE PRINT AND HAND THIS OUT IN YOUR CITY, THEY ARE ALREADY BEING CIRCULATED HEAVILY IN LOS ANGELES
Who mentioned windows? I was asking a question turd, not why "w1nbl0w$ sux0r$ dud3!!!!!!!!!!! I 0wN your b0x3n!!!!!!!!"
Why would a person run an operating system that was optimized for sparc on an intel box?
Just a show from ZDnet that they can publish something non pro-MS. We all know Java is crap and it takes a god damn long time to get anything done in. Thanks ZDnet for the meaningless forecast.
The targeted advertisments will have to be promoting a product related to music in order to gain any benefit from a user's listening habits.
Almost all studies (formal, and my personal experiments) - show that there is almost no correlation between a person's taste in seperate categories (ie - people who like these books will like these kitchen utencils - based off of purchasing behavior.)
Collaborative filtering has been around for a while now and you would be amazed at the places it's evolved (personalized coupons on the back of your receipts at the grocery store). It's all apart of the retailer's plan to have "one view of their customers accross all channels". Is it a bad thing - depends on who you are I guess.
The re-release of Star Trek:TMP. It took me some time to figure it out myself.
This whole emphasis on education is getting old. Everywhere I turn it's "Education Reform" this - "Digital Divide" that. It's stupid. I don't think we should keep forcing education in this country - we basically force feed it to unwilling children. I think it's about time the children take initiative to teach themselves.
Seriously - how many kids can you remember from high school that were really that interested most of the time - like 10 or 20 probably. And can you honestly say that grammar/highschool was much more than a fancy day-care center? For those of you that have gone to college - how many of you have walked into an undergrad class to find that the whole semester was a Japanese TA reading to you out of a book in a mono-tone broken English accent? I wasn't about to continue pay for that crap.
I think once you learn how to read and access resources - it should be up to the students to reach out for more. The current system is way too inefficient.
Oops - Phil's book is called Phil and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing.
If you want to check out a successful example of an online community, check out photo.net.
and yes, profitable communities online. Heh - you mean like slashdot did?
Anyway - I haven't read this book, but I recommend any readers interested in the subject to check out Phil Greenspun's Online Book - he prefers some pretty whacky languages, servers, and databases - but he gets many ideas accross very clearly regardless.
You know.. you could have probably just linked to the article you pasted that from - it probably would have been a bit more effective rather than spamming us all.
You ever notice how snobby Flight Attendants are when you use your laptop on the plane? Whenever preparing to land or take off - they always come to laptop users first to say "time to shut that down now" - in their best stereotypical flight attendant voice. And then if it isn't off within like 30 seconds - they come back to you to re-assure their instructions.
I always do my best to annoy them back - I call them Stewardess's - "Excuse me, Stewardess? Yeah.. uhmmm.. I'm gonna have to ask you to get me another coke - thanks."
They hate to be called Stewardess - so I'm told, and by the look on their face when I say it - you can tell it irks them.
I know it's FAA regulation - but what is a laptop or a discman really going to do?
I think MS is too lenient on money hungry shitheads like Sun. They should end all support for anything Java related - they shouldn't even allow Java crapplets to run in their browser.
Like Sun, Oracle, or any other crap ass money hungry company wouldn't piss on Microsoft and leave them for bankruptcy if they had the chance. I don't want to sound too pro-MS here, but when I code in Java at my day job - everyday feels more and more like I am just using duck tape and bailing wire to create uglyness.
J2EE? What a bunch of marketing hype bullshit - I can't believe the industry standard is moving towards this bucket full of crap ass acronyms. Whenever I here a marketing person ask "will it be developed using the J2EE framework" - I want to slap the bitch 2 times with my open hand.
So stupid
You've obviously only read a few articles relating to CF, and the first line of your post automatically assumes that the source is biased by potential advertisement oppurtunities (typical of the slashdot community)
a) Python, Perl: After reading 200 pages of your average "intro to perl" book - you're still just learning how to work with variables and strings - maybe some looping - still scratching your head wondering when they will get to tying this into your web site.
After reading 200 pages of your average "intro to CF" book - you're tying your web application into databases; writing transactional SQL code; using complex date, time, string, file manipulation, etc. functions and doing billable work while showing massive results. This is all while guillermo - the new perl guy - is trying to figure out why he is getting 'syntax error' when he is trying to parse a string.
b)In a real corporate environment, maintainability and portability would probably outshine all three, ruling CF and ASP out
use the fusebox methodology and you won't run into that. Your templates are included into the HTML as objects. Store all of your global variables in the application.cfm file and it will take you 2 seconds to take the whole application to another machine.
but then you will run into the same problem w/PHP.. a bunch of code that is not reusable. The fusebox methodology of writing CF (or even php) applications greatly contradict this myth.