[mythtv] 'recommendations' section

[Kirby Vandivort]

> I haven't looked at this code yet, but what type of brain do you
> envision?  Will it be solely based on the single user's viewing habits,
> or do we want to attempt some type of collaborative system, like
> Amazon's recommendations?  If you want to go collaborative there are all
> sorts of details to work out, but I'd be more than willing to help.
> 

As I had mentioned in the text below, I have definitely planned to
go collaborative at some point.  We had a discussion about this
already in the user list back in June..  

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=68579;search_string=collaborative%20filtering;guest=1176344&t=search_engine#68579

Right now, the code is purely based on what one person is interested in.
For me, it is doing 'ok' right now.  It's giving a bit too much emphasis
to some words, so I have to go back in and rein that back a bit.  I had
a version during testing that seemed to be giving better answers, so
I'm going to go back and find that version and tweak the current numbers.


Posted from foofoo:
> I also think its a great idea!.
> by the way: IMDB actually has a "if you liked that you might wanna watch
> that" field than might be a starting point.

Good to know.  The IMDB database can be downloaded and used for non
commercial purposes (I'm quoting their licensing terms from memory.
I could be wrong).  Perhaps this could go on the collab filter server
as a starting point.

> > This release is basically to get it out there.  Like I said, I have 
> > a lot of things planned.  Refinements to the "brain", enhancements
> > to the gui, optional autorecording of recommendations with settings,
> > collaborative filtering (eventually) etc. etc..  release early; 
> > release often..


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