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by eggie5 2866 days ago
How would you generalize the method you are using?
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I don't like ML frameworks (Tensorflow, etc...), maybe it's because I haven't tried them. My understanding is that they're like a magic black box: you input some data, you adjust some settings, and you wish for the results to be good. Instead, I've taken a direct approach to the collaborative filtering problem, the difficulty being to correlate a huge amount of data. Some said that only quantum computers would one day be fast enough to solve the recommendation problem, until recently a student demonstrated that it could be solved with classical computers.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-finds-classical-alte...

This student's algorithm is quite different from mine, but I suppose that my algorithm is yet another example of solving the recommendation problem with classical computers.

As long as the users rate how much they like something, my method could easily work with songs or books or anything.