An NLU-Powered Tool to Explore COVID-19 Scientific Literature [Google AI]
Not exactly a recommender system but more a search engine. Yet, this new tool by Google might be interesting to some in the recommender system...
It’s No Joke: Recommender System Beats Humans At Making You Laugh [Michael Yeomans et al. / Diana Gerdeman @ Forbes]
Michael Yeomans et al. published already in October 2019 the paper Making Sense of Recommendations but I just stumbled upon it today, when Dina Gerdeman...
A Case For Embeddings in Recommendation Problems [Arnab Bhadury]
Once you have worked on different machine learning problems, most things in the field start to feel very similar. You take your raw input data,...
New Book: “Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments — A Practical Guide to A/B Testing”
The recommender-system (research) community heavily relies on offline evaluations. While I personally always advocated the use of large-scale online studies and A/B tests, conducting these...
Google medical researchers humbled when AI screening tool falls short in real-life testing [Devin Coldeway @TechCrunch]
Google achieved great ‘theoretical accuracy’ on the detection of diabetic retinopathy. However, in the real-world their approach didn’t perform so well. While this is not...
Building Recommender Systems, An Introductory List [Arnie B. @Flipboard]
Here is a curated collection of my favourite posts for people starting out in recommender systems and personalization. This was created in preparation for our...
Survey of Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Filtering [Elnabarawy et al.]
Collaborative filtering recommendation systems provide recommendations to users based on their own past preferences, as well as those of other users who share similar interests....
Why Recommendations On Netflix, Amazon, Or WeChat Could Be More Influential Than You Think [Forbes]
“When’s the last time you saw a movie in a cinema? How about the last time you watched a movie on Netflix? If you’re like...
Covid-19 Open Source Project Recommender [Adam Barnhard@TowardsDataScience]
Adam Barnhard “built a COVID-19 Project Recommendation System to help people discover open source projects in the community. [He had] been inspired by how much...
Watchworthy’s personalized TV recommendation app will help you find your next binge [TechCrunch]
Ranker, an online publisher that turns crowdsourced lists and fan rankings into a data business, is now turning its attention to the world of streaming...