Filipus Klutiero <chea...@gmail.com> wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > I consider filtered indices, auto-responses, shadow lists of only > > "good" messages, highlighting, integration with db.debian.org and some > > of the other uses for this data to be recommendation systems. > > > A filtered thread index as proposed is not a recommendation list.
A filtered thread index as proposed could be a recommendation system according to both descriptions posted, although it depends how one interprets "suggest", "support" and so on, and how much personalisation one believes is needed to be a recommendation system. One can just as well see many drawbacks by looking at more general "collaborative filtering" research - or even out into more general population clustering work to see the reasons for the drawbacks - but it's a bit older, so less of it is online, so I didn't refer to it. I'm pretty sure that someone would react to the obvious problems in using an unpersonalised filtered thread index (which is a collaborative filter, isn't it?) by personalising it to make some sort of simple recommendation system, wouldn't they? Nevertheless, I now wish I hadn't tried to skip the above step, because it's resulted in this pedantic subthread. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
