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

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Post by sjg007 »

pesfandiar wrote: post #104
jedberg wrote: post #33

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!

Yeah I agree, you figure out very quickly by the voice/cry what they want.

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

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Post by jboogie77 »

klancaster wrote: post #95
thenaturalist wrote: post #71

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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.

Do you mind sharing a link to the research?

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

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Post by imwhoopsie »

writeslowly wrote: post #66

I've been working with clustering algorithms to create a personal news aggregator from sitemaps and RSS feeds, using an NLP library (Stanford CoreNLP) to do feature extraction. [1] I'd like to extend it to classify articles into different categories so I could filter things like transcripts, opinion columns, web scrapes gone wrong, but I'm not sure how to set that up yet. [1] Very rough prototype: https://confabulato…

Hi writeslowly,

a friend and I are working on a tech investment news aggregator (manually curated right now -- http://circulaat.com), and I think your clustering algorithm might be really useful for it. I can't figure out how to DM you via the HackerNews system but would love to get in contact

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

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Post by muricula »

cr0sh wrote: post #125
muricula wrote: post #10

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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.

ML can certainly do continuous problems as well, but for many problems, classification works well to solve them. Plus, most problems can be devolved to classification, and classification problems can usually be solved by simpler "classic statistical" methods (regression methods), so are easy and fast to code for (no need for any fancy neural network or deep learning or such, or massive datasets). I don't think ML or…

I agree that ML knowledge useful and differentiating, but I don't think it justifies the level of dread of the parent comment.

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

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Post by writeslowly »

imwhoopsie wrote: post #155
writeslowly wrote: post #66

I've been working with clustering algorithms to create a personal news aggregator from sitemaps and RSS feeds, using an NLP library (Stanford CoreNLP) to do feature extraction. [1] I'd like to extend it to classify articles into different categories so I could filter things like transcripts, opinion columns, web scrapes gone wrong, but I'm not sure how to set that up yet. [1] Very rough prototype: https://confabulato…

Hi writeslowly, a friend and I are working on a tech investment news aggregator (manually curated right now -- http://circulaat.com ), and I think your clustering algorithm might be really useful for it. I can't figure out how to DM you via the HackerNews system but would love to get in contact

I've added my contact information to my profile. Feel free to email me if you'd like to talk

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

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Post by lawrenceyan »

eggie5 wrote: post #152
lawrenceyan wrote: post #143

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Lending Club?

hedge fund

How large of a dataset are you looking at? I'm curious as to whether Lending Club's publicly available data will be lengthy enough to get meaningful accurate results for general 5-10 year loan predictions. Though it is nice that a economic crash happened to occur in the middle.

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

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Post by kentt »

CodeSheikh wrote: post #42

Replacing project managers and introducing reward/score based AI bots that keep track of progress of individuals as function of stories they are working on, and these bots send out reminders (slack chat bots perhaps). This will can help improve productivity at large firms with multiple (and sometimes unnecessary) levels of manager hierarchies such as IBM, Dell, HP, oil companies etc. Let's be honest a certain program…

That would replace less than 1% of what my PM does. But I work for a smaller company so perhaps I don't understand the use case.
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