Hi everybody!
The new taste-o-meter is online. And the new neighborhood too!
Now the two things are directly related, so it should not happen that you get "medium" or "low" on your neighbor anymore.
How it works? Well, the whole neighbor computation is derived from a rather standard user-based collaborative filtering technique, with some additional "tricks". Bwahahahahah! ;)
This technique returns a (real) value between 0 and 1, that represent the "compatibility" between two users. Since it is rather uncommon that two users share exactly the same set of artists, that number is generally between 0.4 and 0, with a…