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Hunch: what we're trying to do (caterina.net)
5 points by joao on April 21, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



They already seem to have embraced interpreting correlation as causation. Now they seem to want to add confirmation bias to their issues:

"We went through a couple of different questions just to see look at the UI and get a feel for things. Then, I did the "pick a college" thread. I answered all of the questions and the top result was the actual school that I attended - Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Unreal. Then my friend did it and the two schools that she chose between showed up as #2 and #4 respectively, UC Davis, and Texas. Amazing."


I wonder if this site is made specifically as a machine learning tool, but it sure beats cyc as a source.




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