Netflix's Metaflow: Reproducible machine learning pipelines

Re:Netflix's Metaflow: Reproducible machine learning pipelines by Havoc on Monday December 21, 2020 @08:49PM (#25501979)

>Netflix’s recommender system is hands down the worst

Until you log into prime video.

Can’t manage to give me a “continue watching last thing button”. That’s literally the most likely thing I want to watch. Also routinely suggest starting with S02 even though I’ve not watched S01.

Never mind machine learning some common sense would be greatly appreciated

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Re:Netflix's Metaflow: Reproducible machine learning pipelines by bra-ket on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @12:03AM (#25503061)

Netflix actually organized a major machine learning competition more than a decade ago[1] with thousands of the best researchers trying to beat some internal benchmark by a few percent, for $1M prize, I'm wondering where did all that "learning" go.

My guess is that whatever rankings they currently produce maximize some internal revenue target and that target' user base is not me or you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize

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Re:Netflix's Metaflow: Reproducible machine learning pipelines by Havoc on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @08:34AM (#25506060)

Yup. It just ends up irritating users though if the suggestions break basic common sense.

If I watched S01E04 yesterday I want to watch S01E05 today. The interface should be suggesting that PLUS whatever else the ML comes up with in addition, not instead of.

Prime is full of minor irritations like that make me wonder whether Amazon engineers dogfood enough

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