What is the algorithm behind Luka’s personalized conversation feature?
> App Uses Powerful AI to Find Perfect Places for You to Eat (Feb 2015)
… the underlying technology could be applied even more broadly, and that’s reflected in the company’s name, a reference to a strange and sprawling book A Thousand Plateaus by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
In the book, the authors propose a non-hierarchical mode of organization called the “rhizome,” named for the underground roots that sprout from the stems of certain plants.
See also my Quora answer to: