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A lot of projects just don't state tracking explicitly

It would be interesting to see the % of users that decide to opt-in for the tracking

We had 56 just before we posted on HN, we actually got blown away by the community interest

This might have been due to the overload of the backend that we got thanks to HN :)

You can check out the features that increased, as we're using not only the director, but tags and other movie features in the model.

All of this is configurable, of course, so you can adjust the behaviour to your use case

Thanks for bringing up the issue, we will take a look!

As for the Dockerfile, it's built via sbt at the moment, but we will look at adding it to the repo as well.

We were considering creating a plugin for elasticsearch, but there's already one (ES-LTR) and such architecture limits the ability to create a good multi-purpose system.

We're still considering building plugins to easier integrate with existing search technologies and will keep an open eye on the demand for this.

Generally it's possible to implement any type of behaviour as you control what features and actions are taken into account. The demo is not really optimized for mobile as the goal, apart from clicks on the movies, is to show the feature values that are being changed real time.

We're completely on board with you for reinforcement learning, however we wanted to start with something simpler to build the tool faster. RL is one the plate however!

I can actually relate to this, especially when personalization is applied in search.

However our stats and a\b test results show that personalization improves overall store conversion, ctr and other important metrics in ecommerce. And seeing how it's applied everywhere now (you social netwroks, ads, etc), the majority of users are engaging better with it.

Some sites opt to include a 'disable personalization' option, that might do the trick for some of the users

Thanks for the tip, we will take a look!

Thanks for bringing this up, I've created an issue in their github to unblock us

Looks like our demo is struggling with the load, typically it would display a list of movies with which you can interact.

We're looking at what we can do to revive it

Let us know if you want to try it out and we will help as much as we can!

The tool might be useful for larger companies as well, as it can give a head start for the machine learning engineers as they won't need to build the tools from scratch

That's exactly the problem we want to tackle - democratize machine learning, to make more developers and businesses apply it

Thanks for bringing this up :)