What real-world applications are you finding it useful for right now?
Ask HN: What do you use Machine Learning for?
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#2Building a smart home security system, so you can be notified when your friends have arrived, or if someone is trying to break into your home. Machine learning is very useful here, as you can train the system to recognise what your friends look like, or what a break-in might look like.
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#3Not me, but a friend of mine heads a company that uses drones to identify defects / damage on containers. He uses ML to process the images captured by the drones, which is fed through an ML processor to detect such damages & flag them for insurance claims purposes.
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#4Building a smart home security system, so you can be notified when your friends have arrived, or if someone is trying to break into your home. Machine learning is very useful here, as you can train the system to recognise what your friends look like, or what a break-in might look like.
How do you collect training data for break-ins?
Did you put an add out on craigslists requesting for people to attempt it or do you have some criminal connections?
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#5Building a smart home security system, so you can be notified when your friends have arrived, or if someone is trying to break into your home. Machine learning is very useful here, as you can train the system to recognise what your friends look like, or what a break-in might look like.
How do you get the data for training how a break-in looks like?
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#6Not ML per se but ANN have proven to be quite useful in tumor growth modeling. I am using them to model cancerous cells' genotype.
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#7I use it as something to worry about not knowing how to use, and how that might make me unemployable in a few years, while also having no obvious need for it at all, and therefore no easy avenue towards learning it, especially since it requires math skills which have completely rusted over because I also never need those, so I'd have to start like 2 levels down the ladder to work my way back up to it.
I've found it very effective in the role of "source of general, constant, low-level anxiety".
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#8Detecting malware.
https://www.barkly.com/product
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#9predicting the evolution of running cases, and the arrival of new cases, for capacity planning in a call center
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#10I use it as something to worry about not knowing how to use, and how that might make me unemployable in a few years, while also having no obvious need for it at all, and therefore no easy avenue towards learning it, especially since it requires math skills which have completely rusted over because I also never need those, so I'd have to start like 2 levels down the ladder to work my way back up to it. I've found it v…
Machine learning is very good at solving certain types of problems -- classification being chief among them. I think the current hype is a little overblown. Yeah, great scientific advancements have been made, but that doesn't mean"AI" is about to replace all programmers. It's just another family of algorithms we have in our toolbox for when we need them.