predicting the evolution of running cases, and the arrival of new cases, for capacity planning in a call center
Do you believe ML is adding value there (instead of a standard prediction/forecasting model)?
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#112Detecting what pornstars, actions, production and categories appear in 5mil+ adult videos.
Is hiring ML talent in that industry any more difficult than generally?
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#113I run a website called Hey Am I Fat. We've trained a classifier based off a simple softmax regression in TensorFlow that tries to detect whether people are fat or not. If you submit a picture of yourself to HeyAmIFat.com we can tell you if you're fat or not within minutes.
I don't think it would be that much of an asshole to sell the data so that a user starts to see ads for their local gym in their Facebook feed all of the sudden.
You'd be making the world a better place by encouraging the act of exercising. And the lower cost of healthcare. It's pretty much up to you now!
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#114Replacing 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…
I really wish more quantitative analysis was done in this portion of the field, thank you.
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#115At Transloadit we're going to use it for predicting how many machines we'll need to encode incoming video and audio files in near realtime, and then scaling that capacity up in parallel, as files are still being uploaded or imported. Already half a year in the making, but in our early tests it seems we can outperform the custom algorithms we had in place for this, by a lot.
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#116Multilingual named entity recognition and disambiguation
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#117I run a website called Hey Am I Fat. We've trained a classifier based off a simple softmax regression in TensorFlow that tries to detect whether people are fat or not. If you submit a picture of yourself to HeyAmIFat.com we can tell you if you're fat or not within minutes.
I don't think it would be that much of an asshole to sell the data so that a user starts to see ads for their local gym in their Facebook feed all of the sudden. You'd be making the world a better place by encouraging the act of exercising. And the lower cost of healthcare. It's pretty much up to you now!
Gyms would be interested in this demographic in January. The highest bidder during the other 11 months would be junk food delivery.
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#119Trying to predict horse racing
Is that working?
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#120We 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.
There's research about the high frequency of certain digits when bogus accounts are created. I've also done work with KBAs, geo's, and name origins with interesting results. Very exciting area!