cold-start

.NET Application Load Optimizations

Working on .NET gives me good performance in general for the application itself but the initial load times for my application are quite large. A lot of it goes towards loading assemblies which is difficult to gauge. Are there any optimizations that I can apply to my assemblies to make them faster to load without involving the GAC or Ng...

recommendation systems and the cold start problem

Hello, I am curious what are the methods / approaches to overcome the "cold start" problem where when a new user or an item enters the system, due to lack of info about this new entity, making recommendation is a problem. I can think of doing some prediction based recommendation (like gender, nationality and so on). Thanks ...