Facebook documents its recommender system — a little bit. [Sarah Perez @ Techcrunch]
Facebook has not been very open about how its recommender system works exactly. This may be about to change though. Today, Techcrunch announced that Facebook...
Bingie is an app for all your streaming recommendations and debates [Anthony Ha @ TechCrunch]
If you’re overwhelmed trying to choose the next movie or TV show to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max or any other streaming service, Bingie could be...
Google Assistant app now uses your searches to make personalized recommendations [Sarah Perez @ TechCrunch]
Google is revamping its two-year old “Snapshot” feature in Google Assistant for iOS and Android. The company in 2018 had first introduced Google Assistant Snapshot as a...
Techtiefen: Recommender Systems (German Podcast by Heise)
Heise Online, Germany’s probably best IT magazine, introduced a podcast series “Techtiefen” “for nerds from nerds”, already a while go. In its most recent episode,...
Scalable Recommender Systems with NVTabular- A Fast Tabular Data Loading and Transformation Library [Ronay Ak @ Medium]
Ronay Ak et al. from RapidsAI wrote a nice in-depth post on how to use NVIDIA´s NVTabular to develop a recommender system that works with...
RecSys Wiki is back online
After a bit more than 2 years of downtime, RecSys Wiki is back online. RecSys Wiki was established in 2011 by Alan Said (and others?)...
Typewise taps 1m to build an offline next-word prediction-engine [Natasha Lomas @TechCrunch]
While really handy, recommendation systems for (next) word prediction are quite a niche, and I am not sure if there has ever been a research...
Adobe tests an AI recommendation tool for headlines and images [Anthony Ha @ TechCrunch]
Team members at Adobe have built a new way to use artificial intelligence to automatically personalize a blog for different visitors. This tool was built...
Google´s SmartReply comes to YouTube [Rami Al-Rfou @ Google AI Blog]
Google´s SmartReply is a handy feature in Gmail and some other applications, and it can be seen as a recommender system for sentence completion. Now,...
Building Personal Recommender Systems with Milvus and PaddlePaddle [Milvus@Medium]
In this article we use PaddlePaddle, a deep learning platform from Baidu, to build a model and combine Milvus, a vector similarity search engine, to...