I'm currently working at Nvidia, where I'm focused on GPU powered recommender systems as part of the Nvidia Merlin project. Before working at Nvidia, I was at Amazon, Flipboard, and Zite.
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In a previous post I wrote about how to build a ‘People Who Like This Also Like …’ feature for displaying lists of similar musicians. My goal was to show how simple Information Retrieval techniques can do a good job calculating lists of related artists. For instance, using BM25 distance on The Beatles shows the most…
A while ago a friend of mine asked me how I would go about building a ‘People Who Like This Also Like …’ feature for a music startup he was working at. For each band or musician, he wanted to display a list of other artists that people might also be interested in.