prades

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by prades 8y ago
It would be great if everybody gave their opinion about the recommendation systems they've tried. I'll start: Netflix < MovieLens < Criticker < Coollector Movie Database
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by prades 8y ago
This app already exists for Netflix (25 countries) and Hulu: https://www.coollector.com/#netflix
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by prades 8y ago
It's clearly what happened to Netflix. Do you remember when Netflix was the infamous leader in movie recommendations? Do you remember the Netflix prize?
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by prades 8y ago
Netflix recommendation system is a joke today, but it used to be much better in the past. Executives have decided to dumb it down for marketing reasons (promoting their own shows, hiding how their catalog is limited, etc...). > No one ha
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by prades 8y ago
I don't like ML frameworks (Tensorflow, etc...), maybe it's because I haven't tried them. My understanding is that they're like a magic black box: you input some data, you adjust some settings, and you wish for the resul
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by prades 8y ago
As long as the users rate how much they like something, my method could easily work with songs or books or anything.
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by prades 8y ago
Thank you! It could not be free if it was a website because calculating the recommendations uses quite a lot of CPU. It's fine when run on each user's computer, but it would require expensive servers to make all the calculations f
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by prades 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15607383 Amazing story! I don't know if it's true or if you're delusional, but I'm inclined to believe you as it would explain why Netflix recommendation system went
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by prades 8y ago
I feel for you. It must be a huge disappointment to see what they've done to your work. Netflix recommendation system used to be very good a few years ago.
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by prades 8y ago
> That is part of the reason the recommender has been degrading over the years. Netflix is clearly promoting its original shows. Do you think your system is still in use now that they've moved to thumbs rating and percent match scor
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by prades 8y ago
I've built a recommender system for my movie database app "Coollector Movie Database". It's based on Collaborative filtering and it took me 2 years to implement. I built it from scratch and it's unique in several wa
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by prades 8y ago
Flixbox is USA only, but there are some websites like unogs.com who can handle more countries. In addition to a more convenient browsing of the catalog, if you also want an alternative recommendation system (with really accurate and unbiase
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by prades 8y ago
Thankfully there are alternative interfaces to browse the Netflix catalog: https://www.coollector.com/index.html#netflix
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Show HN: Netflix recommendations are broken There's an alternative(medium.com)
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