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[andrewducker]

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[the-locster.livejournal.com]

Heh. An interesting result of the Netflix prize was that it became apparant that all people (well, people who rent films anyway) can be objectively placed on about 60 distinct (and orthogonal for the mathematicians out there) feature axes (dimensions) at the very least. That said the majority of variance in the rating data that could be accounted for was accounted for by the first few features - so charts like this with 3 axes probably make a lot of sense.

As an example, here are the filsm from opposite ends of the first axis from a matrix decomposition of the data. It could probabyl be best described as the 'intelligence axis' (maybe?)

From:
http://sifter.org/~simon/journal/20061027.2.html


Category 1:

Pearl Harbor (2001)
Coyote Ugly (2000)
The Wedding Planner (2001)
Armageddon (1998)
Maid in Manhattan (2002)
On Deadly Ground (1994)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
Jack Frost (1998)
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Miss Congeniality (2000)
S.W.A.T. (2003)
Eddie (1996)

Vs.

Lost in Translation (2003)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Dogville (2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Before Sunset (2004)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
The Mother (2003)
Primer (2004)
Adaptation (2002)
Sideways (2004)
Brothers (2005)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Sin City (2005)

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

Yup. Oh no, wait.

[zz]

i'm actually considering changing my "do you consider yourself disabled?" answer at work from no to yes, wrt aspergers, as an insurance policy against being fucked over by inflexible bureaucracy.

[(Anonymous)]

On the periphery of yellow and blue.

Greetings from London.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's very interesting, because that fits more-or-less hit-and-miss my conception of the terms, but I know some people use them interchangeably, or with different connotations.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

OK, for the record? I love your diagram. Best categorization of the terms I've ever seen.

(I got here from thette, who got it from supergee)