Practice Recommendation Systems and Profiles - 12.2 | 12. Divide and Conquer: Counting Inversions | Design & Analysis of Algorithms - Vol 2
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is a recommendation system?

💡 Hint: Think about websites that suggest what to buy based on your previous choices.

Question 2

Easy

Define user profile.

💡 Hint: Remember what information is stored for personalized suggestions.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What does a recommendation system do?

  • Provides unrelated content
  • Suggests products based on user profiles
  • Eliminates user preferences

💡 Hint: Think about how platforms like Amazon or Netflix suggest items.

Question 2

True or False: An inversion means that two users have the same ranking.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Recall what an inversion signifies in rankings.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Design a simple algorithm that uses inversion counting to recommend products to a new user based on a small set of user profiles.

💡 Hint: Consider how to implement the comparison efficiently.

Question 2

Critique the effectiveness of using inversions as the only metric for recommendations. Are there situations where this method might fail?

💡 Hint: Think about how other factors could impact a user's decision.

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