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Spotify's Gustav Söderström on machine learning to personalize user experiences

The Robot Brains Podcast

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Was Machine Learning at the Core of Spot of Fire Back When You Started?

Back two thousand eight, two thousand nine am, machine learning was starting to play a role on spotify. But it wasn't as good yet as it is to day. So we got a victor for every song with these forty dimensions based on how they had coocurred with other songs. And then you have that for every song and you can take the average number of plays per user in sequence. It's very much about curating your own music experience. Those things appeared in the client early on but if you went to an artist's page, you could see similar artists too. Back then, back then, ir was maybe tens to hundreds of millions. To day, more than

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