Andrea Dodet

Sorry for the slow reply. @leonseng approach didn't work for me (I believe for unrelated reasons) - at the same time I believe that would be the correct approach to...

@g-eorge I am in a very similar situation (sparse matrix with some extremely popular items), this is leading the model to provide recommendations heavily centered around those few popular items....

@mike-chesnokov That sounds like a good approach. Do you think that simply multiplying the biases by some _'dampening factor'_ would work as well? I am thinking of producing recommendations at...

@mike-chesnokov It would be indeed another parameter to tune. On the other hand I'd probably use it in the exploration phase (e.g in a notebook) as the final call has...

@antaldaniel Thanks for your time on this. Also, feel free to pick @womeimingzi11's PR if it makes more sense.

I was about to implement a few more input options myself but found this PR has most of it sorted out. @daattali No idea if the package is still actively...

Having the exact same problem, passing a url before encoding it leads to a 400 error. @jeroen should `utils::URLencode()` to correctly escape spaces before calling `R_download_curl`? At the moment I...