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+adpredictor
+===========
+
+A simple implementation of Microsoft's AdPredictor (http://bit.ly/SFgcq8) in Python.
+
+See [tullo.ch/articles/online-learning-with-adpredictor/](http://tullo.ch/articles/online-learning-with-adpredictor/) for a detailed discussion of the algorithm and implementation.