[MaxLeiter]

Almost all of your top-level comments mention you did this

[adtac]

Interestingly, his Medium post from two years ago [1] also says "5 years ago", and happens to be the only activity there.

[1] https://medium.com/@sadikkapadia/i-wrote-the-recommendation-...

[sadikkapadia1]

I don't keep track of time. That system is old technology. I did confirm from a Netflix employee that they still use it a few months ago. Deep learning, LDA (even one of Xavier's pet projects - k-means), did not do better.

[tschwimmer]

hard to fault him in this particular case as it's directly pertinent to the original topic.

[sadikkapadia1]

This is what working in a big company is like sometimes. Imagine a person like MaxLeiter working in Netflix. You would think that all staff would be happy that their work became easier. But a minority seem to have a zero-sum mindset.

When I finish my current work I will talk about that also. Some of my older work is speech recognition. Download my thesis.