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Re: If You Liked This, Sure to Love That

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Post by plaggypig »

jfornear wrote: post #7
DaniFong wrote: post #2

That's hilarious. The list of movies that are hard to classify reads like a list of my favorites... [Like] “Napoleon Dynamite” — culturally or politically polarizing and hard to classify, including “I Heart Huckabees,” “Lost in Translation,” “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,” “Kill Bill: Volume 1” and “Sideways.”

I would classify those all as Indie mainstream, stuff that is popular with the scenester, psuedo-intellectual, pretentious crowd.

So then, if only Netflix had a checkbox on its registration form:

[ ] Yes, I am a pretentious psuedo-intellectual scenester!

Perhaps you've discovered the most important demographic unit of the century? I guess then, the greater problem would be to glean which people answered the question sarcastically.. damn.

Re: If You Liked This, Sure to Love That

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Post by ChaitanyaSai »

DaniFong wrote: post #2

That's hilarious. The list of movies that are hard to classify reads like a list of my favorites... [Like] “Napoleon Dynamite” — culturally or politically polarizing and hard to classify, including “I Heart Huckabees,” “Lost in Translation,” “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,” “Kill Bill: Volume 1” and “Sideways.”

My similarity explorer would have picked some of those out for you without much effort! :)

http://gflix.appspot.com/netflix/3281

http://gflix.appspot.com/netflix/14273

I wasn't even using the algorithm ensemble that helped me get much further on the leaderboard.

Here's more about the app : http://www.discerniblepreferences.com/2008/10/netflix-movie-...

Re: If You Liked This, Sure to Love That

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Post by FiReaNG3L »

I really wish there was an open source incremental SVD-based library to to collaborative filtering; the algorithm is known, we know its pretty efficient, scalable and high performance. Sure there is Mahout (http://lucene.apache.org/mahout/) but development seems pretty slow, if there is still dev work at all on this.

Re: If You Liked This, Sure to Love That

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Post by fizx »

FiReaNG3L wrote: post #14

I really wish there was an open source incremental SVD-based library to to collaborative filtering; the algorithm is known, we know its pretty efficient, scalable and high performance. Sure there is Mahout ( http://lucene.apache.org/mahout/ ) but development seems pretty slow, if there is still dev work at all on this.

Lingpipe has a semi-open license, and a Java implementation of incremental SVD. The original incremental SVD code is open: http://www.timelydevelopment.com/demos/NetflixPrize.aspx

BTW, SVD is not scalable. I define scalable algorithms to have time and space complexity O(n log(n)) or less. SVD is generally O(n*n)+, requiring matrix multiplication. You'll have to shard your computations in order to scale indefinitely.

Re: If You Liked This, Sure to Love That

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Post by GHFigs »

jfornear wrote: post #7
DaniFong wrote: post #2

That's hilarious. The list of movies that are hard to classify reads like a list of my favorites... [Like] “Napoleon Dynamite” — culturally or politically polarizing and hard to classify, including “I Heart Huckabees,” “Lost in Translation,” “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,” “Kill Bill: Volume 1” and “Sideways.”

I would classify those all as Indie mainstream, stuff that is popular with the scenester, psuedo-intellectual, pretentious crowd.

I would classify you as a pretentious psuedo-intellectual scenester based on the fact that you've just demonstrated mastery of that demographic's primary modus operandi.

Re: If You Liked This, Sure to Love That

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Post by olavk »

jfornear wrote: post #7
DaniFong wrote: post #2

That's hilarious. The list of movies that are hard to classify reads like a list of my favorites... [Like] “Napoleon Dynamite” — culturally or politically polarizing and hard to classify, including “I Heart Huckabees,” “Lost in Translation,” “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,” “Kill Bill: Volume 1” and “Sideways.”

I would classify those all as Indie mainstream, stuff that is popular with the scenester, psuedo-intellectual, pretentious crowd.

No, it must be more complicated than that. If they were just consistently popular with a specific demographic, it would be easy to predict - the problem seem to be that even if you like Lost in Translation, you might still hate Kill Bill, or Fahrenheit 9/11.

Re: If You Liked This, Sure to Love That

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Post by mixmax »

olavk wrote: post #19
jfornear wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would classify those all as Indie mainstream, stuff that is popular with the scenester, psuedo-intellectual, pretentious crowd.

No, it must be more complicated than that. If they were just consistently popular with a specific demographic, it would be easy to predict - the problem seem to be that even if you like Lost in Translation, you might still hate Kill Bill, or Fahrenheit 9/11.

I loved kill bill, but left the cinema when seeing lost in translation because it was so terrible.

So it is more complicated than that...

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