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Podcast: The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
Episode: Xavier Amatriain - Engineering Practical Machine Learning Systems - TWiML Talk #3
Description: My guest this time is Xavier Amatriain. Xavier is a former researcher who went on to lead the machine learning recommendations team at Netflix, and is now the vice president of engineering at Quora, the Q&A site. We spend quite a bit of time digging into each of these experiences in the interview. Here are just a few of the things we cover in our discussion: Why Netflix invested $1 million in the Netflix Prize, but didn’t use the winning solution; What goes into engineering practical machine learning systems; The problem Xavier has with the deep learning hype; And, wh...