veekaybee

How are search and recommendations the same, and how are they different?

• Question on Mastodon
• Question on Twitter

TL;DR:

• The design of both search and recommendations is to find and filter information
• Search is a "recommendation with a null query"
• Search is "I want this", recommendations is "you might like this"

soheilhy

Virtual Hosts on nginx (CSC309)

When hosting our web applications, we often have one public IP address (i.e., an IP address visible to the outside world) using which we want to host multiple web apps. For example, one may wants to host three different web apps respectively for example1.com, example2.com, and example1.com/images on the same machine using a single IP address.

How can we do that? Well, the good news is Internet browsers