# recommendation systems (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover recommendation systems. Page: Feed: --- ## [How we think about text classification in the LLM era](https://medium.engineering/how-we-think-about-text-classification-in-the-llm-era-89a185f79b68?source=rss----2817475205d3---4) _2026-08-19 · Raphael Montaud · Medium Engineering - Medium_ Why we think LLMs can be useful and why we will not replace all of our models with them Context At Medium, we have many Machine Learning models that we use to label stories automatically. These affect what stories we recommend to readers. Here’s some examples: a few of our text classification models. All diagrams and charts made by the author Some Clarifications on our Machine Learning policy… ## [How we built the new Table of Contents feature](https://medium.engineering/how-we-built-the-new-table-of-contents-feature-c3825d8c279d?source=rss----2817475205d3---4) _2026-07-23 · Scott Batson · Medium Engineering - Medium_ How a feature goes from idea to prototype to shipped For years, there’s been this really popular Chrome extension for adding a table of contents to your Medium stories. Props to Vinicius De Antoni for writing a popular chrome extension all those years go. The extension was so popular, we even wrote about it in our Medium Handbook. How to make a table of contents for your Medium story The fact that… ## [Outcomes we want to see from AI at Medium Engineering](https://medium.engineering/outcomes-we-want-to-see-from-ai-at-medium-engineering-10891d52a19f?source=rss----2817475205d3---4) _2026-05-26 · Jacob Bennett · Medium Engineering - Medium_ This was originally written and published by Christophe Spy (Director of Engineering, Medium) as an internal Medium Eng post. Desired outcomes (what “good” looks like) 🙏🏻 These are the kinds of changes we want to see if AI is going well at Medium. Less drudgery, more leverage Engineers use AI to remove repetitive, low‑leverage work (e.g. tedious refactors, boilerplate, large test suites), not… ## [How we improved image download sizes on Medium with just four characters](https://medium.engineering/how-we-improved-image-download-sizes-on-medium-with-just-four-characters-9621b0ebb291?source=rss----2817475205d3---4) _2026-05-18 · Scott Batson · Medium Engineering - Medium_ HTML images just got better, with the subtlest change to your codebase Photo by Adi Suyatno I know what you’re thinking. Scott, I landed on Medium on a small but not mobile-small display and the download chunk related to images in my home feed was like 7% smaller. First of all, thank you for noticing. Second, what if I told you that you too can improve your total asset download size by adding just… ## [Making AI Write Android Code Our Way: A Practical Guide to Agent Skills](https://medium.engineering/making-ai-write-android-code-our-way-a-practical-guide-to-agent-skills-4e7b085d8e50?source=rss----2817475205d3---4) _2026-03-17 · Pierrick CAEN · Medium Engineering - Medium_ Generated by DALL-E Turning knowledge into reusable AI agent instructions for a small, fast-moving team. We're a small Android team at Medium, just a handful of engineers maintaining and evolving the Medium Android app. Our codebase follows Clean Architecture with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Hilt, Apollo GraphQL, and a growing number of feature modules. Like most Android teams, we have strong… ## [To Reach Beyond Your Grasp](https://phoropter.substack.com/p/to-reach-beyond-your-grasp) _2026-01-20 · Ani N · Phoropter_ Why I dropped everything for a startup instead of finishing my PhD, taking a lucrative job at a large research lab, or going into AI policy ## [Books I read in 2025](https://blog.habrador.com/2026/01/books-i-read-in-2025.html) _2026-01-02 · Habrador · blog.Habrador.com_ Each year I write a list of books I read during the year. This is the 2025 list: Tracers in the dark . Once upon a time there was a website called Silk Road where you could buy drugs using Bitcoin. This book is about how various groups managed to take down that website, crimes related to that website, and how similar websites were taken down. The theme is that Bitcoin is not as anonymous as you… ## [The best self published book I've read this year](https://phoropter.substack.com/p/the-best-self-published-book-ive) _2025-12-14 · Ani N · Phoropter_ Only a week late ## [We’re Hiring a Principal Backend Engineer to Shape the Future of Medium](https://medium.engineering/were-hiring-a-principal-backend-engineer-to-shape-the-future-of-medium-a0d7896b3717?source=rss----2817475205d3---4) _2025-10-22 · Michael Margolis · Medium Engineering - Medium_ When I joined Medium , it was because I still believe in the internet as a place for ideas. Not noise, not outrage, but content that connects people through shared curiosity. Medium’s mission is to deepen understanding and spread ideas that matter. We’re building the best place for reading and writing online: A space that rewards clarity, authenticity, and craft over clickbait and engagement… ## [Medium Android App — Migrating from Apollo Kotlin 3 to 4: Lessons Learned](https://medium.engineering/medium-android-app-migrating-from-apollo-kotlin-3-to-4-lessons-learned-ff8d0d861cdb?source=rss----2817475205d3---4) _2025-10-06 · Pierrick CAEN · Medium Engineering - Medium_ Photo by Mario Verduzco on Unsplash Medium Android App — Migrating from Apollo Kotlin 3 to 4: Lessons Learned In this post, I’ll share my experience migrating the Medium Android app from Apollo Kotlin version 3 to version 4, including the challenges I encountered and how I solved them to improve our GraphQL implementation. Understanding Our Apollo Cache Implementation Before diving into the… ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/EVLNTVh3OL1G) _2025-10-06 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [Engineering stories behind the Medium Daily Digest Algorithm: Part 2](https://medium.engineering/engineering-stories-behind-the-medium-daily-digest-algorithm-part-2-c977ad0b134f?source=rss----2817475205d3---4) _2025-08-28 · Raphael Montaud · Medium Engineering - Medium_ How we made our filtering 10x cheaper by removing our Bloom Filters Bloom Filters are great tools to make fast and cheap filtering. They also come with plenty of problems and can easily get expensive and cumbersome. We switched to user-based direct database queries, which made our filtering cheaper and easy to maintain. Here’s the full breakdown of that migration. Intro : This is a 4-part series… ## [Engineering stories behind the Medium Daily Digest Algorithm: Part 1](https://medium.engineering/engineering-stories-behind-the-medium-daily-digest-algorithm-part-1-909a7ca5e807?source=rss----2817475205d3---4) _2025-08-26 · Raphael Montaud · Medium Engineering - Medium_ How we made our email story recommendations better In this Part 1, you’ll understand how we improved one of the main ways our users are exposed to our product and how that led to a massive 7% increase on the average reading time for the digest users. Intro : This is a 4-part series breaking down improvements to the algorithm behind the Medium’s Daily Digest over the past year. When we started this… ## [Engineering stories behind the Medium Daily Digest Algorithm: Part 4](https://medium.engineering/engineering-stories-behind-the-medium-daily-digest-algorithm-part-4-ec7136f21acd?source=rss----2817475205d3---4) _2025-08-25 · Raphael Montaud · Medium Engineering - Medium_ Cross-Digest diversification In this part 4, we’ll see how we went from investigating a few complaints from digest power users to improving our digest recommendations across the board. Intro : This is a 4-part series breaking down improvements to the algorithm behind the Medium’s Daily Digest over the past year. When we started this work, the Digest was suboptimal — and since it’s a huge… ## [Engineering stories behind the Medium Daily Digest Algorithm: Part 3](https://medium.engineering/engineering-stories-behind-the-medium-daily-digest-algorithm-part-3-6fbf1512e6e6?source=rss----2817475205d3---4) _2025-08-25 · Raphael Montaud · Medium Engineering - Medium_ Hard vs Soft Filtering and how this applies to Medium’s Recommendation System In this part 3 we’ll see how we modified one of our hard filtering rules and attempted to turn it into a machine learning based “soft filter”. Intro : This is a 4-part series breaking down improvements to the algorithm behind the Medium’s Daily Digest over the past year. When we started this work, the Digest was… ## [How to make a Neural Network in Unity in 11 lines of code using C#](https://blog.habrador.com/2025/06/how-to-make-a-neural-network-in-unity.html) _2025-06-16 · Habrador · blog.Habrador.com_ Ever wanted to make a Neural Network in Unity using C#? Now you can do that in just eleven lines of code (excluding brackets) using my newly released open source library called MicrogradCSharp . Introduction Neural Networks are the backbone of many modern Artificial Intelligence algorithms and libraries. If you are trying to learn Neural Networks you will notice that most tutorials are made using… ## [Notes from a walk of whimsy](https://phoropter.substack.com/p/notes-from-a-walk-of-whimsy) _2025-04-20 · Ani N · Phoropter_ Some days, like yesterday, must be enjoyed ## [The chessboard world](https://phoropter.substack.com/p/the-chessboard-world) _2025-03-10 · Ani N · Phoropter_ Finding agency in an augmented world ## [Books I read in 2024](https://blog.habrador.com/2025/01/books-i-read-in-2024.html) _2025-01-02 · Habrador · blog.Habrador.com_ Each year I write a list of books I read during the year. This is the 2024 list: Shantaram . A man escapes from prison in Australia and ends up in Bombay, India. It is a novel, but some parts come from the authors own experiences. The book may be 2200 pages on my iPad but it is very well written so it was a joy to read! Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm . Industrial Light & Magic… ## [Spooky Recommendation System Scaling](https://phoropter.substack.com/p/spooky-recommendation-system-scaling) _2024-10-31 · Ani N · Phoropter_ Last month I published an initial (very rough) draft of an idea I had for giving users control over what data they produce is utilized by recommendation systems. ## [How to make a texture atlas template the smart way](https://blog.habrador.com/2024/10/how-to-make-texture-atlas-template.html) _2024-10-21 · Habrador · blog.Habrador.com_ Using a texture atlas is a smart way to improve the performance of your game and minimize the number of textures you need to keep track of. A texture atlas is basically a square image you split into smaller squares with the same size. For example, this is how Minecraft's texture atlas looked like in 2011: The boring part is to make the template. I used to create a texture with the size I want the… ## [AI publishing with human taste (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fVqkn5RUosND) _2024-10-21 · **Sponsored**_ Convert AI research into blogs, podcasts, and newsletters with optional human review. ## [How to actually delete Rigid Bodies in Blender](https://blog.habrador.com/2024/10/how-to-actually-delete-rigid-bodies-in.html) _2024-10-16 · Habrador · blog.Habrador.com_ I've been simulating ball physics in Blender - and it has been a little bit of a struggle. Yesterday while testing out different behavior of balls I realized that if I deleted some of the balls - Blender didn't actually remove their colliders. I couldn't see the balls themselves but I noticed that the deleted balls collided with the visible balls. I tried to restart Blender and clear the cache,… ## [A Policy Proposal](https://phoropter.substack.com/p/a-policy-proposal) _2024-09-29 · Phoropter_ TL;DR: I think that the features used by recommendation systems should be configurable by end users receiving recommendations, and that this ability should be enforced by policy.