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Re: Ask HN: What do you use Machine Learning for?

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Not 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.

By containers, do you mean shipping containers? Sounds interesting!

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I'm not using it at this moment, but in a couple of weeks I'll have a newborn, and I was thinking of taking pictures of him every time he is upset, and then tagging the photo with what ends up being the resolution (feed, change, or nap) and seeing if I could build a classifier that could figure out what he needs just from a picture of his angry face. Semi-related, but if anyone is using the AWS tools for their AI, pl…

Suggestion from a new father: you'll have a better chance analyzing your newborn's voice. They have very little control over their facial expression, but there might be some useful information in their crying. Good luck with your new projects!

I was actually planning to do both and see which, if either, produced any useful response. :)

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Hey, sounds interesting. Would you share the name of your company/ startup?

At this point, it is university research. The work has been published, and we are in clinical trials in prep for commercialization.

Is this just for melanoma, or has it expanded into pap smear and bronch territory? My mother's a cytotech and every couple of years somebody claims they're going to replace her with a shell script. Hasn't happened yet, though.

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My understanding is that the anxiety isn't about a fear of programming being automated in the near future, but rather about ML growing into a required, essential skill for a software developer in the next few years.

> My understanding is that the anxiety isn't about a fear of programming being automated in the near future, but rather about ML growing into a required, essential skill for a software developer in the next few years. Let's say you were an automobile assembly line worker in 1965, and you were hearing about robots taking over your job at some point. What would you do? That is, what would be the best thing you could do…

If robots can design websites in 5 years, it won't be much longer til they can devise statistical ML schemes. Also, if you don't have a background in math, you'll just be finishing your studies of math/CS after 5 years, for reference.

Projects like TPOT and DataRobot are already showing a huge amount of promise for automating the tedious/time consuming parts of ML. But this doesn't mean they'll get good at the hard part any time soon.

I'd say your time/energy is better spent lobbying governments for socialist reform than learning ML at this point so we can avoid the worst case scenario(s).

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We use ml to identify users who might try to commit fraud when purchasing things from our site, as well as prevent identify fraud when users verify their ID with us. We are also looking into taking advantage of adaptive design to improve ux and conversion.

Interned at a KYC/KYB company last summer and its all manual there. They've got people checking the submitted forms/scans manually. How good are you getting because I truly believe they can all be replaced very quickly! Talk to me :)

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Why didn't you finish? I did the 3xxx self driving course on Udacity and was considering doing the nanodegree as well. Would really love to hear your perspective.

If you can afford it, do the nanodegree. I did the CS373 course back in 2012 - and I have found that the nanodegree (which I am taking, and I am about 2/3s of the way thru the second term) touches on more than a bit of new stuff that I didn't find covered in the CS373 course (at least back in 2012). First term alone is worth the price, I think. Learning how to use OpenCV, TensorFlow and Keras, then using that knowled…

Sounds good, thanks for the insight.
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