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 > >> >
