And to provide some options, I can say that I would certainly help, Sisir, with getting the distributed SVD into the recommender framework. While there is not much fundamental "computer science" left to that, there is a fair amount of high-performance *engineering* left to do in that direction.
-jake On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I also second the recommendation to pick one of these ideas and focus > on it first, as it will be a lot more work to get it working, > documented, and tested! > > I personally like the idea of getting a distributed SVD-based > recommender into the project. The SVD works quite well and all we have > now is a non-parallel implementation. > > However I support Jake's suggestion more that RBM would be most useful > at the moment. > > Pick your area, dig in, and we can help you refine your ideas and begin. > > Sean >
