I have different opinions about each piece.
I think that cross recommendation is as core as RowSimilarityJob and should
be a parallel implementation or integrated. Parallel is probably easier.
It is even plausible to have a version of RowSimilarityJob that doesn't
support all the different dista
That was by no means to criticize effort level, which has been impressive
especially during the release.
It was more a question about the best place to add these things and whether
they are important. Whether people see these things as custom post processing
or core.
On Feb 8, 2014, at 12:13 P
I am not fulltime on Mahout either and have a fulltime job which is unrelated
to Mahout.
Its just that I have been sacrificing personal time to keep things moving on
Mahout.
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 3:13 PM, Ted Dunning
wrote:
Thompson sampling doesn't require time other than a se
Thompson sampling doesn't require time other than a sense of what do we now
know. It really is just a correct form for dithering that uses our current
knowledge.
For a worked out version of Thompson sampling with ranking, see this blog:
http://tdunning.blogspot.com/2013/04/learning-to-rank-in-ver
Didn’t mean to imply I had historical view data—yet.
The Thompson sampling ‘trick’ looks useful for auto converging to the best of
A/B versions and a replacement for dithering. Below you are proposing another
case to replace dithering—this time on a list of popular items? Dithering works
on any
