Yeah... you don't usually need a specific mechanism for that.  Just get a
bunch of people together and they will surprise each other for you.

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Lee Carroll
<[email protected]>wrote:

> predicting the intent of the user when they intend something other
> than they want. good luck
>
> :-)
>
> On 24 March 2012 17:00, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I don't know what you mean by significant any more than Sean.
> >
> > But serendipity in a recommender comes from two sources.  Both must be
> > present.  One source is having enough people who interact with the
> > recommender.  The second source is a judicious injection of exploration
> > which can come from dithering of result lists or from additional
> > exploration opportunities such as a top40 page or a rising star page or
> > genre pages.
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:38 AM, ziad kamel <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear developers,
> >>
> >> How can I know that the recommendations I get from Mahout is
> significant ?
> >> Is there a way to know that there is serendipity in recommending using
> >> certain recommender than other ?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
>

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