Are you spending time with the right stuff?
Something that keeps popping up on my head, especially on those days when I'm completely immersed in learning some tricks of yet another half backed (but cool), technology, is: Am i spending time on the right stuff?
I mean, how important it is to know, for your life, that the java database derby has word "transaction" as a reserved word (and thus you cannot use it as a table column). At first you can think uau nice thing i found out... but then later ... I realize: what i dumb ass i am, first for spending time on learning this, and second for being happy for figuring out this useless thing.
Well, to be fair, i guess, time is well spent if it makes you happy somehow, or by being fun or by being profitable or because you can show it off, or whatever that makes your day... But other than that...
So.... What we learn from this? Lets close computer and off to party!
Here we go.... Closing ....
Ahh, by the way, been playing lately with some jruby and data mining wannabe scripts, with some java mixed in, more posts on this later...
Damn!!! did it again!!...
Art Pandora and the Suggestion Systems
Pandora(www.pandora.com) and Last.fm(www.last.fm) are systems that suggest music for the style you choose to listen, which i find to work quite well, and just as pandora or last.fm are a suggestion system for music, why not have also one for art?
So the idea is having a system where user picks an art style, seems some painting, identifies some he like's and don't likes, the system learns with this feedback, collects all users feedbacks, and later identifies patterns, building a the suggestion system.
What is this good for?
Well, at first maybe a simple screen saver, or a desktop background image, changing every day... could be a possible application for it.
But taking the idea a bit further it could potentially be used to sell art, suggesting art to potential buyers. Like a site where each user has a personal profile, and as new paintings for sale come up, if the painting has close affinity to the user style than he gets a suggestion about the painting.
Ebay suggesting system:
Knowing the items you looked at, and bought, a system like this could also suggest you new interesting items related to your style of interests. Where for example, a user would receive a week summary of new items that could be interesting for him.
What is this stuff?
It's kinda collective intelligence, isn't it ? Something that is just begging to be used full on, with the internet, all these millions of people, searching, buying stuff, working, discussing, playing, reading, etc... Would be nice to be able to pull patterns from all of this and use them for suggestions systems.
Maybe google has the edge for this? check the: google big brother.
So the idea is having a system where user picks an art style, seems some painting, identifies some he like's and don't likes, the system learns with this feedback, collects all users feedbacks, and later identifies patterns, building a the suggestion system.
What is this good for?
Well, at first maybe a simple screen saver, or a desktop background image, changing every day... could be a possible application for it.
But taking the idea a bit further it could potentially be used to sell art, suggesting art to potential buyers. Like a site where each user has a personal profile, and as new paintings for sale come up, if the painting has close affinity to the user style than he gets a suggestion about the painting.
Ebay suggesting system:
Knowing the items you looked at, and bought, a system like this could also suggest you new interesting items related to your style of interests. Where for example, a user would receive a week summary of new items that could be interesting for him.
What is this stuff?
It's kinda collective intelligence, isn't it ? Something that is just begging to be used full on, with the internet, all these millions of people, searching, buying stuff, working, discussing, playing, reading, etc... Would be nice to be able to pull patterns from all of this and use them for suggestions systems.
Maybe google has the edge for this? check the: google big brother.
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