Humans have been producing beer for over 5,000 years, and it has become our most consumed alcoholic beverage worldwide. But is brewing an art or a science? The rise of the craft beer segment suggests that many of us perceive it as an art, but machine learning is gradually reinventing both the process and product development aspects of this traditional industry.
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Promise and Peril for Machine Learning at Netflix
As the amount of content, competition, and subscribers in the online media space grows, Netflix is turning to machine learning to provide a more entertaining experience for its customers. While they are investing heavily in their proprietary recommendation engine and enjoying the benefits of increased customer retention, questions are emerging around how far into customer profiling a machine learning algorithm should ideally go.
The Cash Before the Storm: Forecast-based Financing at Red Cross
With natural disasters on the rise, The Red Cross is investing in prediction and prevention to save money, time, and lives.
Bright Cellars: The Pandora of Wine
Two MIT grads leverage big data to digitize wine selection and recommendation and democratize wine.
CHOPCHOP – Smart Cooking Backed by Artificial Intelligence
The story of my startup aimed at disrupting the $2bn cooking assistance and $10bn connected kitchen markets.
Stitch Fix: Personalized Retail at Scale
“Stitch Fix is squarely at the intersection of both online and offline (so hot right now) and human and algorithm (even hotter)” – WSJ