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Archive for September, 2008
Quick update
In: Uncategorized
29 Sep 2008We brought back the newsfeed this week so users now have a way to see recent activity on the site. It’s a convenient way to discover new movies to watch based on what people are actively rating and tagging.
We also have a new top movie watcher on the site who has watched 855 movies and [...]
Last Thursday at 8PM, we sent out invites to 150 people who signed up for our beta. Hello to all of our new users!
The site and the team have both come a long way in that time. Although I know there is still a lot to do, it’s pretty cool to look [...]
Don’t use python’s list comprehensions for set operations. Use, um, the set type and her functions.
In: Algorithms| Code
9 Sep 2008I’m making, say, 60,000 function calls, each involving two python lists (no duplicates within these lists, so they’re theoretically more like sets), with each having some overlap with the other. I’m making these 60,000 calls, say, 30,000 times. The question: how do I find the symmetric difference of the two lists efficiently via my function [...]
Economic Hardship = hidden gem boom?
3 Sep 2008In today’s Wall Street Journal, just below the fold, lives a story about the state of the market for movies. The gist: too many movies, too few distributors. 600 feature films were released last year, up from 466 in 2002. Yet economic woes make investing in a motion picture quite unattractive, and hence demand outstripping [...]
Is it similar plot elements? Technical details, such as what lighting filter a director chooses? Is it a common character archetype, such as the “anti-hero” or “mad scientist?” The emotions a movie evokes? Length? Simply genre? Actors, writers, directors? All of the above?
Or does it depend on the individual user?
It’s tough. Movies are so darned [...]
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