Math Puzzle: Enumerating Combinatorial Result Sets

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Warning: Big-time nerder alert! If you find overt nerdyness offensive, zone out now or just click right on through.
I’m neither a computer scientist not a mathematician (and it probably shows), but I’m curious enough to poke around a bit. Lately I’ve been having fun with combinatorics.
One of the programs I often write as I’m learning [...]

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Improving Cinemax, the Netflix Recommendation Engine

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

I’ve been fascinated with Netflix ever since I did a giant research paper about the company for my senior project for business management.  Particularly fascinating to me were the technologies Netflix uses to estimate demand and the Netflix Recommendation Engine (Cinemax), which I have posted about previously.
Well now it looks like Netflix has placed a [...]

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