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The video of the talk: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/1947373/
FYI, if you liked this talk you might also like 'Programming Collective Intelligence'. If you haven't read it already...
Nice recommendation!
The book description sounds a lot like data mining. Isn't it? Why didn't they use the buzzword anywhere?
It does some data mining, but there's also a lot of soft AI (optimizing an airline travel search, building a basic search engine).
It's quite good, although there are a number of annoying typos in the code, a trend that I've noticed recently with a number of O'reilly books unfortunately.
Still, definitely worth a read, the intro to practical applications of some of the AI topics in particular is really cool.
Partially it seems they're jumping on the Web 2.0 crowdsourcing long tail here-comes-everybody bandwagon; partially because by focusing specifically on 'collective intelligence' they're actually narrower than data mining per se. But primarily I think the former, to give the book wide appeal (and lots of sales!).
Hands down, my favorite presentation at PyCon
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