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A distributed Recommendation Engine based on Redis + Ruby (and C)

Shown by paulasmuth on Feb 19, 2012. Click the card to turn it over.

97points

11comments

#225of 1,677 in 2012

Top 14%of 2012 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

5 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.30.

Docs: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against

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Readme is clear and simple
From 2 comments
- Terrific readme
  fraserharris on HN
- +1 more for that awesome ReadMe. The project looks clean and simple.
  joeblau on HN
Open source code is useful to study internals
From 1 comment
- Oh man, this is just awesome. Thanks so much for making this open source - it's great to be able to pick apart the internals of something like this.
  sycr on HN

Co-occurrence matrix stored in memory in Redis may not scale to very large datasets
From 1 comment
- I've been working on something similar - https://github.com/jamii/springer-recommendations All the open-source engines I've tried scale poorly. Since our input data already…
  jamii on HN
C part appears incomplete and native extensions are not compiled from source
From 1 comment
- Paul, how does C fits into the picture? I don't see anything in the source for compiling native extensions, and the implementations src/recommendify.c calls look incomplete? I am…
  ambertch on HN

How does it compare with EasyRec?
From 1 comment
- How does this compare with other recommendation engines, such as the opensource EasyRec[0] ? [0] http://easyrec.org/
  steve19 on HN
How does C fit into the picture?
From 1 comment
- Paul, how does C fits into the picture? I don't see anything in the source for compiling native extensions, and the implementations src/recommendify.c calls look incomplete? I am…
  ambertch on HN
Does it take a square root like Amazon's similarities?
From 1 comment
- Does any part of this involve taking the square root of something? Amazon's original similarities did that and I can't remember exactly how.
  chrismealy on HN

EasyRec
From 1 comment
- How does this compare with other recommendation engines, such as the opensource EasyRec[0] ? [0] http://easyrec.org/
  steve19 on HN