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Spotify's Machine Learning Evolution
- Spotify transformed from a music library to a powerful machine learning recommendation engine.
- Implementing collaborative filtering at Spotify's massive scale was an unprecedented engineering challenge.
Build For Yourself, Then Others
- Build products for yourself first to leverage your own intuition.
- Quickly ask, "How many of me are there?" to avoid limiting your product's growth.
Limits Of Collaborative Filtering
- Collaborative filtering based solely on playlist co-occurrence misses music specifics and causes odd recommendations.
- Data noise leads to mistakes humans wouldn't make, exposing limits of black box ML.