The recommendation engine has a new heart

Turi Create is out, PyTorch is in – and the site should feel a lot steadier

As of today, the recommendations at Recommend.Games come out of an entirely new piece of machinery. Turi Create, the toolkit that trained our model for years, is gone. The model is now trained with PyTorch, in code we wrote ourselves, in version 4 of our open source board-game-recommender.

If you read nothing else: this was a transplant, not a redesign. Same maths, new engine, much steadier site.

The last few times I wrote a post like this the news was rather more dramatic, so let me answer the obvious questions before anyone starts worrying.

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