In this section, let's formalize the recommender system problem. We have a set of users, 
, a set of items, 
(movies, tracks, products, and so on), and a set of estimates, 
. Each estimate is given by user 
, object , its result , and, possibly, some other characteristics.
We are required to predict ...
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