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....
Spotify introduces new Playlist Creator with AI
Spotify is rolling out a new feature in the UK and Australia. Users can create “AI Playlists”, i.e. a user types a prompt such as...
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...
Which researchers have made the most significant advancements in recommender system research? (ChatGPT)
My prediction is that in the foreseeable future, researchers will not only worry about their Google Scholar profile but also about what ChatGPT (or similar...
6th International Summer School on ‘Resource-aware Machine Learning’ in Dortmund (Sept. 2022)
Given the importance of machine learning for recommender-systems, this summer school may be interesting to people in the recommender-systems community: The 6th Resource-aware Machine Learning...
115 Recommender-Systems Papers accepted at SIGIR 2022
The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022) released the list of accepted papers. It contains a total...
Netflix adds a ‘Double Like’ (Love) rating option
Netflix seems to have added a new type of rating. So far, Netflix had a binary rating (like and dislike). Yesterday, after finishing watching a...
RS_c creates a map of RecSys researchers around the world
It’s difficult to keep an overview of who is an active researcher in the RecSys community. Therefore, we started an attempt to keep the overview:...
Algorithms aren’t fair. Robin Burke wants to change that. [Press Release Colorado U]
The University of Colorado Boulder released a press release about the well-known recommender-systems researcher Robin Burke, titled “Algorithms aren’t fair. Robin Burke wants to change...
An update to dislikes on YouTube and it’s use in the recommender system
Some recommender systems rely on explicit feedback like user ratings or likes and dislikes. YouTube recently decided to not show the count of dislikes on...