The company Netflix has a very sophisticated and accurate recommendation system. They also have $1 million prize for anyone who can make it better. One interesting thing is that apparently the movie Napoleon Dynamite is screwing up the Netflix’s rating system. There’s a good article in The NY Times called “If You Liked This, You’re [...]
In the same NY Times article i just wrote about, there’s a great section the “hard-wired upper limit on the number of people he or she can personally know at one time” and compares that number between humans and apes. It reads:
In 1998, the anthropologist Robin Dunbar argued that each human has a hard-wired upper [...]
There is an article in the NY Times a few weeks ago called “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy” and i think it’s one of the best pieces i’ve read in a long time at explaining why Facebook Status, News Feed, Twitter and other new digital platforms are useful and popular.
The online area that the [...]
