No April Fooling: Inside UC Berkeley's joke recommendation system

Submitted by Alpha Doggs on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 11:51am.

Every day is something like April Fools’ Day at the University of California, Berkeley joke recommendation site, dubbed Jester .

(Readers: What's the best April Fools' prank you've ever played or had played on you? Techier the better. Add in comments below)

Now on Version 4.0, the site tosses visitors a handful of jokes to rate on a scale of “less funny” to “more funny.” It then recommends jokes based on the user’s taste (or lack thereof), dynamically making recommendations based on the user’s most recent ratings.

Source and The Rest: Network World