1 January 2009

Project: Affinity

My master's thesis, a learning algorithm for sharing and propagating information in large networks. The thesis also included a demo web site applied to customized web links suggestions in social networks.

1 June 2009

First implementation: many problems

I tried a first launch with a sample implementation of the algorithm. So far, with only 15 human users, it’s been a failure. Some problems come from the design of the site and others from algorithm choices, I’ll only describe ...

5 May 2009

Prototype Based Virality

Talking about initializing the link set, I previously said I could solve this practical problem later, it was stupid. You can’t test an algorithm if you can’t initialize it and I want to test it as soon as possible in ...

21 February 2009

Updating the links

Updating the links is the most important task in our algorithm, this is also the point where most of our design choices take place. First, we must define when we can do it. We can do updates only after positive ...

Author

Hi, my name is Kevin Michel.

I'm a french developer, currently living in Montpellier, south of France.
you can find more of my stuff here.