Joe Petviashvili

Jester uses a collaborative filtering algorithm called Eigentaste to recommend jokes to you based on your ratings of previous jokes.

“But what if you could follow not people but objects as well? Objects like products, services, websites etc. Anything that someone has an interest in promoting and which one or more people might be interested in getting updates (object-tweets) about.”

Occasionally, Wikipedians lose their minds and get into edit wars over the most petty things. Though not comprehensive or authoritative, this page documents this "color of the bikeshed" phenomenon by showing some of the worst-case scenarios where obsessed Wikipedians have more...

Check out "Customers Who Bought Items Like This Also Bought", reviews are also very helpful

One of the primary reasons why I'm still working on jaanix

When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied. Well, what can't be copied? There are a number of qualities that can't be copied. Consider "trust." Trust cannot be copied. You can't purchase it. Trust more...

The more wallpapers you rate, the more intelligently Socwall can recommend other wallpapers to you.

Delicious search is one of the best ways of searching for things when a standard search doesn’t pull up what you are looking for.

Voting ballot from 10 April 1938. The ballot text reads "Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Reich that was enacted on 13 March 1938, and do you vote for the party of our leader Adolf more...

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wondered if clickstreams would be the next step in blogging, given the newfound popularity of twitter and the emergence of companies like Me.dium and Cluztr. Turns out that Cluztr has a feature to turn your clickstream into twitter posts, and more...

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