Archive for 11 July 2009

Learning Scala

Posted: 11 July 2009 in Uncategorized
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Two weeks ago, I picked up my copy of Programming in Scala, which had been languishing on my shelf for months.  I pre-purchased it since I went to high school with one of the authors (Lex Spoon).  His mother, incidentally, was also my favorite math teacher.  When I started my new job back in September [...]

Predicting movie ratings hereby declared dead

Posted: 11 July 2009 in Uncategorized
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There is no longer any reason to bother researching new ways of predicting the ratings users will give to movies.  It’s time to move on to more interesting things.  But seriously, given the fact that the last few miles of the Netflix competition were hard-fought by combining hundreds of different algorithms, is there much value [...]