…I already live in an Idiocracy. I don’t watch too much TV, regretfully not even my beloved ‘IT Crowd‘, ‘Discovery Channel’, ‘History Channel’, CNN (Spanish version), other news, and some stand-ups (‘monólogos’ in Spanish), so I had to find out about "Idiocracy" (the movie) thanks to ‘Soy Geek‘. It seems …
Some of us have been commenting on our posts about Numb3rs getting excited because of the nature of the series, a mathematician that uses their knowledge to solve criminal cases. Well, we’ll be advocating now for another TV series OR-er that has been neglected over the last years: Dr House …
While I’m trying to juggle around with the data set offered by Netflix for the quest of improving their Cinematch algorithm I’m in my own quest for getting the theory behind the real model, the structure that resides behind those 2GB of user and movie ids, dates and so on. …
If you’re an A+ dummy (aka almost-not-a-dummy) you can try with this software (Varozhka), created by Eugene Rymski, to play around with the Netflix Prize dataset. Brilliant! Similar Posts: My programming life Instant Forecast First there was Chaos…
Mr Smith, XVIII century’s great grand-father of modern economics, devised the power of the market as the main driver (anyone for the “invisible hand”?). As in “A Beautiful Mind” we can hear: “every man for himself”, because the own interest will tend to get the main group’s interest. Following Mr …