Monthly Archives: September 2010

Invalid Comparison Algorithm Produces Bad Suggestions

StumbleUpon “Suggested People” or “People You Might Know” is not really useful because it is not normalized (in the mathematical sense). As it works now, you get suggestions about people who have something in common with you — because they have stumbled a lot and have lots of favorites. By the laws of chance someone with a vast number of favorites will share a lot of them with you. What you should see instead are people who have a lot of favorites that you have, relative to the total number they have. A comparison algorithm should try to predict the probability of the two people having similar page-favorite profiles, i.e. the probability they are actually alike and will like the same pages. Continue reading

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Some Work In Progress

diverse projects include three online novels, about a social tech missionary organization, about a connected college – sequel to Social Tech High, and about world language projects, constructed language projects — I am using Python imaging libraries, suggest aggdraw under Linux and recommend wubi also suggest StumbleUpon Continue reading

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I hope that means what I think it means.  I did try to learn some Russian once, but I didn’t learn very much and it hasn’t stayed with me.  I never did learn Cyrillic.  So I am trusting that Google … Continue reading

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Working on Before and After Animation

working to produce animation of transformation of social network with good social tech tool Continue reading

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