Archive for June 29th, 2007

Google News Personalization: Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Interesting conference paper on the algorithms behind Google News:

Google News Personalization: Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering: Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering Industrial track, at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), May 8-12, Banff, Alberta, Canada

  • Authors:
  • Abhinandan Das (Google)
  • Mayur Datar (Google)
  • Ashutosh Garg (Google)
  • Shyam Rajaram (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

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Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage?

Friday, June 29th, 2007

a nice article from Duncan Watts on predictions and why predictions of success are difficult to make:

Duncan Watts, Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage? in the NYT article

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