Every recommended video you see on Netflix was selected by an algorithm. The company estimates its algorithms produce $1 billion a year in value from customer retention. When intuition fails, data from machine learning can win, according to a recent paper describing Netflix’s recommendations system. On a Netflix screen, a user is presented with about 40 rows of video categories, with each row con
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