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Bayesian cold-start recommender

I’ve spent much of the past year prototyping, productionising, and developing the efficient learning algorithm for BBC Bitesize. Our ambitions for the Bayesian framework that underpins the Bitesize quiz have always gone beyond just a quiz.

Once we got the initial prototype of the quiz up and running we turned our attention to diversification, and specifically towards adapting the algorithm to a cold-start…