In the movie ‘Burn after reading’, George Clooney sings the praises of ‘muscle memory’ – the concept that muscles have excitable circuitry capable of directing complex behaviour on their own. Sure enough, when the moment comes his muscles remember to rapidly draw a gun and shoot a man who inadvertently surprises him. Normally, Coen Brothers movies are not a reliable source for information about...

BACKGROUND Outside health care, content tailoring is driven algorithmically using machine learning compared to the rule-based approach used in current implementations of computer-tailored health communication (CTHC) systems. A special class of machine learning systems ("recommender systems") are used to select messages by combining the collective intelligence of their users (ie, the observed an...

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