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Module. Node. Sshfs. Quickstart. Selenium. Streaming - V4LWiki. HOWTO/AudioDevices - BlueZ - Trac. Introduction to Recommendations - Directed Edge Developer Base. This is a reprint from an article by Directed Edge co-founder Scott Wheeler that originally appeared in two parts in Gründerszene (Part 1, Part 2) I still buy vinyl records.

There’s something nostalgic about friction between a needle and wax producing my music in the age of iTunes. When I buy records I don’t go to one of the Kreuzberg outlets near to where I live, I go across town to Rotation Records. Why? Because of Niko. Niko owns Rotation and his knowledge of the the genres that he stocks make it worth taking 90 minutes out of my day to get his input. Recommendations have no doubt been a component of sales since the advent of commerce. But aside from large e-commerce sites and startups that themselves are focusing on recommendations, how are recommendations relevant to the larger startup world?

So that’s the “why”, now what about the “how?” Collaborative Filtering Collaborative filtering is the best known branch of recommender systems. But there’s a catch. Graph-Based Recommendations. Writing udev rules. By Daniel Drake (dsd) Version 0.74 The most recent version of this document can always be found at: Contents Introduction About this document udev is targeted at Linux kernels 2.6 and beyond to provide a userspace solution for a dynamic /dev directory, with persistent device naming. Over the years, the things that you might use udev rules for has changed, as well as the flexibility of rules themselves. This document assumes that you have udev installed and running OK with default configurations. This document does not cover every single detail of rule writing, but does aim to introduce all of the main concepts. This document uses various examples (many of which are entirely fictional) to illustrate ideas and concepts.

History The concepts Terminology: devfs, sysfs, nodes, etc. A basic introduction only, might not be totally accurate. The original /dev directories were just populated with every device that might possibly appear in the system.