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		blake8086 on Nov 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, become... That's actually pretty easy: "People like you rated this place X".

binarysolo on Nov 6, 2012 [–]

Yay machine learning! Though to scale that is a nontrivial issue...

A not-quite-as-good but easier statement to make: People who like place X also like places Y, Z... etc.

eshvk on Nov 6, 2012 | [–]

Also, sparsity of data. The fact that people are precious unique snowflakes. :)

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