ML Applications in Business
Airbnb
Unboxing the Random Forest Classifier, 2015-10-01
- The post talks about making random forests more interpretable at Airbnb
Practical Lessons from Prediction Clicks on Ads at Facebook, 2014-08-24
Improving YouTube Video Thumbnails with Deep Neural Nets, 2015-10-08 (conbributed by Mike Joyce)
Quantitative Insights (medical company)
Use of Machine Learning and Computer Vision to predict probability of breast cancer (contributed by Benjamin Collins)
L'Oreal
L'Oreal's MakeUp Genius app based on on advanced Machine Learning-powered face recoginition technologies (conbributed by Yoni Sarason)
Netflix
Netflix Prize, a famous historical Machine Learning / Predictive Analytics competion with $1M prize for those who could beat Netflix's in-house movie recommendation engine by 10% in terms of accuracy. A brilliant marketing stunt. A academic sweatshop that made dozens of thousands of data scientists work for much less than what they could have made flipping burgers at the local McDonald's...
Other
4 Ways Cognitive Technologies Can Add Value to Consumer Products, 2015-06-03, Deloitte
Fun Stuff
MarI/O, an A.I. program trained by Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning to play the Super Mario game like a pro (conbributed by Kirk Liu)