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.
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#132I'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!
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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.
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#135To see the results - post your resume here: https://www.postjobfree.com/post-resume
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#136Forecast loan payment defaults for 90 days or longer, 3 months in advance using a tree based model.
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#137I'm using it to isolate acapellas from music for making mashups/remixes. Not quite "real world" yet, since even my most recent models aren't perfectly reliable, but it's getting there.
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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…
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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#139We 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.
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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…