How a Matrix Trick Helped Win a Million-Dollar Prize
Author(s): Arjun Bhasin Originally published on Towards AI. How Netflix guesses what you will watch. And why a huge table of ratings hides a few simple ‘tastes’. Suppose that you finish a show on Netflix and, before the credits end, it suggests …
How SVD Compresses an Image — One Layer at a Time
Author(s): Arjun Bhasin Originally published on Towards AI. Every photo can be rebuilt from simple layers, and the first few carry most of the picture. Suppose we are allowed to keep only a fifth of the numbers in a photo. The article …