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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Paul Reithmuller was yet another imported Australian engineer who did amazing work.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

To a certain extent, such a high diversity of recommendation techniques is attributed to several implementation challenges like a sparsity of customer ratings, computational scalability, and lack of information on new items and customers. Konstan, and John Riedl, 2001. Karypis, J. Konstan, J. Karypis, J. Guo, M.Fraser, 2009.

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