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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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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Optimized shot-based encodes for 4K: Now streaming!

The Netflix TechBlog

Since then, we’ve developed algorithms such as per-title encode optimizations and per-shot dynamic optimization , but these innovations were not back-ported on these premium bitstreams. We’ve worked hard over the last year to leapfrog to our most advanced encoding innovations?—?shot-optimized 8, 10, 12 and 16 Mbps?—?regardless

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

All Things Distributed

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. Seat Pagine Gialle Italia is an Italian media company most famous for producing the Yellow and White Pages directories.

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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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Cryptic Trails to Blockchain Expertise: Exploring Lesser-Known Ethereum Avenues

Tech News Gather

represents a monumental shift in the network’s consensus mechanism. We will discuss how staking is revolutionizing Ethereum and the potential benefits for both stakers and the network. We will explore how Ethereum is contributing to this and facilitating communication between different blockchain networks.