This post is about Antecons, a product recommendation engine, now part of Conversio. Antecons is no longer commercially available, but I have kept my developer diary on my website with permission. I recently started to implement a feature that analyzes similarities and relations between products and factors this analysis into the recommendations that are created.… Continue reading Product similarities and relations
Spotify royalties
Spotify is a cool service but I do not agree with how they pay out royalties. In this post, I will propose a different way. The current royalty calculation is explained by Spotify like this: There is a big chunk of money (the revenue) and each artist is paid according to their global “market share”.… Continue reading Spotify royalties
Teaching philosophy
Teaching is fun. Unfortunately, I have not had the chance to teach since 2010 at the University of Oregon but I found an old paper I wrote for a teaching effectiveness seminar and I thought I would re-print it here. It has not been edited except for a spelling error. Teaching philosophy Diverse classes, different… Continue reading Teaching philosophy
Open-sourcing the past
While studying at the University of Oregon, I worked as a teaching assistant in three different computer science courses. One of them was CIS 323 Data Structures Lab but this course was a bit special because it had its own course number and I was teaching it almost on my own. It was quite a… Continue reading Open-sourcing the past
More data, better recommendations
This post is about Antecons, a product recommendation engine, now part of Conversio. Antecons is no longer commercially available, but I have kept my developer diary on my website with permission. Today, we have published an improvement for the Antecons recommendation algorithm. In the beginning, recommendations were based on an analysis of order data for… Continue reading More data, better recommendations