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Black Box Machine Learning in the Cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

There’s a bunch of companies working on machine learning as a service. Instead of the negative let’s go through the ways I think a machine learning API can actually be useful (ok full disclosure: I don’t think it’s very many). Focusing on a particular niche makes it easier to build something that works off the shelf.

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Black Box Machine Learning in the Cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

There’s a bunch of companies working on machine learning as a service. Instead of the negative let’s go through the ways I think a machine learning API can actually be useful (ok full disclosure: I don’t think it’s very many). Focusing on a particular niche makes it easier to build something that works off the shelf.

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Gather AI secures new cash to scan inventory in warehouses using drones

TechCrunch

The proceeds bring the company’s total raised to $17 million, which CEO Sankalp Arora says is being put toward expanding Gather’s deployment capacity and go-to-market plans as well as hiring new machine learning engineers. So does Pensa Systems, Vimaan, Intelligent Flying Machines , Vtrus and Verity.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. While weather may have been the root cause, the 16,000 flights canceled between Dec. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts.

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

O'Reilly Media - Data

Over the years, machine learning (ML) has come a long way, from its existence as experimental research in a purely academic setting to wide industry adoption as a means for automating solutions to real-world problems. There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance.

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The Process Automation Map

Bernd Rucker

In this case, the decision is not too hard: as thousands of companies have the exact same requirements you have, you can simply buy a standard HR software or leverage an off-the-shelf cloud service around payroll. As a first project, you need to automate the payroll run, which is a manual and tedious process at your company currently.

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Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

Netflix Tech

About two years ago, we, at our newly formed Machine Learning Infrastructure team started asking our data scientists a question: “What is the hardest thing for you as a data scientist at Netflix?” Our job as a Machine Learning Infrastructure team would therefore not be mainly about enabling new technical feats.