John Ramey » Miscellaneous http://www.johnramey.net Don't think...compute. Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:34:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Amazon Clearly Does Not Have Enough Training Data for Me http://www.johnramey.net/2010/04/08/amazon-clearly-does-not-have-enough-training-data-for-me/ http://www.johnramey.net/2010/04/08/amazon-clearly-does-not-have-enough-training-data-for-me/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:55:20 +0000 johnramey http://www.johnramey.net/?p=254 In my GMail account, I have an auto-filter-and-archive for many companies from which I receive updates, ads or newsletters that I actually read.  To name a few: Facebook, Twitter, Baylor, Kia, and Amazon.  Amazon send me recommendations for all kind of books and magazines, mostly science, math and statistics oriented.  So, during my daily GMail-checking ritual, I received yet another email from Amazon recommending science magazines.  Occasionally, I will make purchases based on their recommendations, but this is a little absurd.

]]> http://www.johnramey.net/2010/04/08/amazon-clearly-does-not-have-enough-training-data-for-me/feed/ 0 New Blog Theme http://www.johnramey.net/2009/03/09/new-blog-theme/ http://www.johnramey.net/2009/03/09/new-blog-theme/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:20:11 +0000 johnramey http://www.johnramey.net/2009/03/09/new-blog-theme/ Though I loved my old theme featuring one of my favorite books, The Hobbit, I needed more display options. The previous theme only showed my different posts and ignored categories among many other things.

My new theme is as shown…let me know if you like it.

It doesn’t handle my LaTeX plugin very well. I’ll have to work on that later.

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