Recsperts Didn’t Stop at Episode #20 — I Just Forgot Writing About It
Back in November 2023, I wrote that Recsperts was becoming a constant in the recommender-systems community. The occasion was episode #20, in which Marcel Kurovski...
Robin Burke on Social Choice for Fair Recommendations — and a Recommender-Systems Podcast I Had Missed
A recent episode of Data Skeptic caught my attention: Social Choice for Fair Recommendations, featuring Robin Burke. The 43-minute conversation starts with the history of...
A new promising book: “Recommender Algorithms – 2026 Practitioner’s Guide”
I received a very interesting new book “Recommender Algorithms: 2026 Practitioner’s Guide” by Rauf Aliev. I have skimmed only the first hundred pages, so this...
Comprehensive AI-generated Tutorial on Using RecBole for Recommender Systems
RecBole is a versatile, unified, and efficient library designed for prototyping and benchmarking recommender systems. Built on PyTorch, RecBole supports a variety of recommendation paradigms,...
Netflix’s Journey: Early Challenges and the Absence of Recommender Systems in Marc Randolph’s Vision
A recent 2-hour interview with Marc Randolph, the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, provides a fascinating look into the early days of the company....
Case Study on how VistaPrint uses Amazon Personalize for product recommendations
Nothing mind-blowing, but a nice read if you have some time: A blog post by VistaPrint on how they use Amazon Personalize for creating personalized...
‘Recsperts’ releases its 20th episode; This time on Practical Bandids and Travel Recommendations
Recsperts is becoming a constant entity in the recommender system community. A few days ago, almost exactly 2 years after its launch, Recspert released its...
Andrew Ng introduces a new (free) course on Vector Databases by Sebastian Witalec
Update 2023-11-16: I attended the course, and, unfortunately, am not very convinced. The course is rather superficial and in the beginning, many basic details are...
Creating a Recommender System Prototype Using LensKit and MovieLens
LensKit is a flexible Python library for creating, testing, and evaluating recommender systems. In this tutorial, we’ll guide you step-by-step to build a recommender system...
Recsperts Podcast #5: Fashion Recommendations with Zeno Gartner
Marcel Kurowski released the 5th Podcast of his “Recsperts” series. This time, Zeno Gartner, a well-known researcher in the community, talks about fashion recommendations. Listen...