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For your eyes only: improving Netflix video quality with neural networks

The Netflix TechBlog

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. We’ll see more innovation if emerging AI tools are accessible to everyone, such that a dispersed ecosystem of new firms, start-ups, and AI tools can arise. But not all rents are bad.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy.

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What is an A/B Test?

The Netflix TechBlog

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the second post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. See here for Part 1: Decision Making at Netflix. Figure 2: A simple A/B test.

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Scaling Media Machine Learning at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Our goal in building a media-focused ML infrastructure is to reduce the time from ideation to productization for our media ML practitioners. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific. It's an entertainment website where users can post content or "memes" that they find amusing and share them across social media networks. They believe that they have reduced development time from 20 to 30 percent by having done so.

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'Paris s'éveille'! Introducing the AWS EU (Paris) Region

All Things Distributed

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS EU (Paris) Region, our 18th technology infrastructure Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. The cloud is an opportunity to stay competitive in each of these domains by giving companies freedom to innovate quickly.

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