plan to depth \(d\), take action, replan

Recommender System is a system that provide recommendations due to search; it combines Information Retrival with another goal:

• Editorial/Hand-Curated lists: “list of favorites”, “essential items”, etc.
• Aggregates: top 10 lists, most popular, recent uploads
• (hardest) Individual tailors: user-based recommendation

Formal Model

• \(X\) the set of users
• \(S\) the set of things to recommend
• \(R\) the set of distinct and totally ordered ratings (stars 1-5, real number 0-1, etc.)
• Utility function: \(U:X \times S \to R\) (“how much

Three key problems:

reduce reduces compute time for list-based operations: it changes a linear series of events to divide-and-conquer so you can parallelize it

in theory reduce only works for associative operations?

in NSM, reductive paraphrase is the act of reducing all utterances in a language into semantic primes.

This is usually done with the application of an inherent, universal grammar: the conceptual grammar of semantic primes.

problems with reductive paraphrasing

In the experiment conducted by (Labov 1973), Labov (according to (Geeraerts 2009), manuscript not found) showed that the boundaries of cup vs. mug are not clearly delineated.

Thanks for opening Jack’s long rambly PDF. Please read all of it; I wanted to get this out there before anything else so I apologize in advance for a letter that’s on the longer side and I didn’t have time to write a shorter one.

Before you begin, please read Michael’s AMAZING notes on our pitch to get the context. It’s amazing. I will not repeat here anything mentioned there.

Pat yourself on the back

Oh god was that a difficult semester. We got through many a challenges and worked together to solve most of them. That’s cool. We also built a thing that the XRT team liked; so that’s cool too.