Distributed Neural Networks with GPUs in the AWS Cloud

Isn&#x27;t this infringing the recent patent of Neurala? <a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PALL&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=8,648,867.PN.&amp;OS=PN/8,648,867&amp;RS=PN/8,648,867" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;patft.uspto.gov&#x2F;netacgi&#x2F;nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=H...</a>

The Netflix tech blog goes into more detail about running deep learning on Amazon&#x27;s cloud servers.<p><a href="http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/02/distributed-neural-networks-with-gpus.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techblog.netflix.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;distributed-neural-netwo...</a>

Is this really a good idea? I thought neural networks didn&#x27;t do as well as other methods outside of image classification and problems like it. Many of the advancements in Deep Learning were learning to extract features from unlabeled data. I assume all of Netflix&#x27;s data is labelled.<p>EDIT: The deaded comment below me makes a good point, but they still have labels in the sense of what everyone watched and for how long.<p>Also the new title is terrible. Oh I guess it&#x27;s a different article now???

Has any large-scale genetic algorithm infrastructure been developed? I&#x27;ve often wondered if EaaS (Evolution as a Service) could ever function successfully. Surely it has potential.

I wish Netflix would just give me a list of genres I could browse through and stop with the oh-my-so-clever recommendation engine. Maybe I want to stretch my viewing habits... how am I going to see what is on offer if it is always filtered through what I chosen before?

The best possible side-effect from this? That we finally figure out a universal theory of film production and consumption. The social scientific&#x2F;cultural sociological significance of this is quite lovely.

Sadly, the Recommendation Engine is only of limited use...and I hate to be one of those naysayers as I understand the economics and contractual issues here...the movies that Netflix thinks I would really enjoy <i>and</i> are available for streaming <i>and</i> I haven&#x27;t seen (I watch a lot of movies but am by no means prolific) goes downhill after a couple dozen.<p>It used to be that on the iPad, at least two bottom rows were dedicated to &quot;New Releases&quot; and &quot;Recently Added&quot;...sometimes neither of those rows seem to show up, and so I find myself logging into the web client just to see those listings, and -- I assume this is why they aren&#x27;t as spotlighted in the iPad app anymore -- there&#x27;s generally not much new to see. While I like House of Cards, I think Netflix would appeal to me much better if it spent that money on 200 - 300 <i>good</i> recent releases, or holding steady on to some of the great classics (there used to be more Akira Kurosawa and Woody Allen movies on Instant).

Really a good news. Looking something like this

What is it&#x27;s first recommendation? Add more DRM into the web standards? Subvert the open web further?