The process of machines learning from data unleashes the power of exploding resource. It uncovers what drives people and the actions they take
Machine learning's task is to find patterns that appear not only in the data at hand, but in general, so that what is learned will hold true in new situations never yet encountered.
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Small ups and downs determine your fate and mine, every day. A precise spam filter has a meaningful impact on almost every working hour. We depend heavily on effective internet search for work, health, home improvement and most everything else. We put our faith in personalized music and movie recommendations from Spotify and Netflix. After all these years, my mailbox wonders why companies don’t know me well enough to send less junk mail (and sacrifice fewer trees needlessly).
[This article has been reproduced with permission from University Of Virginia's Darden School Of Business. This piece originally appeared on Darden Ideas to Action.]