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by laxatives 1600 days ago
I would be a lot more interested in a technical article than hearing about the history of Netflix.
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travisjungroth 1600 days ago
We've recently done a large blog series on experimentation. https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-a-culture-of-learning-39...

Kinda covers everything and links out to posts that cover the software engineering in more detail and papers that cover the math in more detail.

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gordon_freeman 1600 days ago
the blog posts series on rec system is interesting. But when I watch Netflix I still run into simple issues. can you please take care of some basics first, such as if I press 'thumbs down' then Netflix would never recommend that title again or similar to such titles.
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dmitriid 1600 days ago
They can't do that. Netflix now has very little content since all the big players have pulled out and started their own streaming services. Netflix has to recommend what it has: old movies, subpar TV shows, things you don't like, Netflix-produced content.
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rwilson4 1600 days ago
You might be interested in Trustworthy Online Experiments by Kohavi et al then. I enjoyed the historical progression!
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