This post contains NO spoilers. I saw The Time Traveler’s Wife with my wife today. I had read the book about a year ago, and had been looking forward to the movie. I wasn’t disappointed — I thought the movie was very moving and captured the spirit of the book, even if it didn’t capture [...]
Posts Tagged ‘movies’
Books and movies
Posted: 16 August 2009 in UncategorizedTags: adaptations, books, douglas adams, movies, time traveler's wife
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Netflix Prize just about wrapped up
Posted: 2 July 2009 in UncategorizedTags: clerk dogs, cmu, collaborative filtering, discovery engines, graduate school, hcir, human computer information retrieval, machine learning, movies, netflix, netflix prize, recommender systems, research
Image via CrunchBase It looks like some of the top players in the Netflix Prize competition have teamed up and finally broke the 10% improvement barrier. I know I’m a few days late on this, though not because I didn’t see when it happened. I’ve been battling an ear infection all week and it has [...]
Movie idea #7210
Posted: 24 January 2009 in UncategorizedTags: cliches, creative commons, genetic algorithms, hackers, movie ideas, movies, stock market
The main character is a geeky computer programmer playing around with genetic algorithms. He comes up with a representation that lets him evolve intelligent agents for market trading that become wildly successful. He makes over a billion dollars in a very short period of time, like say, a week. He shuts them down, in nervousness [...]
clerk dogs
Posted: 18 December 2008 in UncategorizedTags: brazil, clerk dogs, dark comedy, jinni, movie genome project, movie recommendations, movies, netflix, recommender systems, sci-fi
I happened on clerk dogs, a new movie recommender, the other day. They are still in beta and are missing data in many key areas of film, but they are definitely worth checking out. Like Pandora, clerk dogs uses human editors to classify movies along several dimensions. Indeed, the founder Stuart Skorman (also founder of [...]
A weekend in Boston
Posted: 4 August 2008 in UncategorizedTags: anthropological linguistics, boston, breweries, computational linguistics, harvard, john harvard, movies, sapir-whorf, says you, the dark knight, vacation, wanted
So I spent the last weekend in Boston. I stayed at the very enjoyable Inn at Harvard. I was reminded several times by the women staying at the hotel of the female players in the public radio game show Says You! That was show actually one of my early influences in choosing the field of [...]
This post contains no spoilers. I rewatched Primer this week. I had seen it a couple years ago as one of the first movies I got from Netflix the first time I signed up. It was a successful recommendation. Since I was a kid, I have been totally intrigued with time travel and time travel [...]
Up Up Down Down…
Posted: 18 June 2008 in UncategorizedTags: cheat codes, juno, kimya dawson, lyrics, moldy peaches, movies, music, netflix, rants, thundercats
This post is spoiler free. I finally got to see Juno tonight. It’s been sitting at the top of my Netflix queue for nearly two months with a long wait. What a great movie! One of my favorite parts was the soundtrack. There were several great songs by Kimya Dawson (of the Moldy Peaches) and [...]
Is that all there is?
Posted: 19 May 2008 in UncategorizedTags: movies, music, pandora, peggy lee, revolver, the nines, youtube
My taste in music is definitely in flux. Five years ago I would have found this intolerable, but now I can’t stop listening to it. I blame Pandora. The musical journeys it takes you on can be transformational. Unfortunately the video stops before the song is over, but YouTube offers several full length suggestions immediately [...]
