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Effective Machine Learning Needs Leadership — Not AI Hype
 Originally published in BigThink, Feb 12, 2024.  Excerpted from The...
Today’s AI Won’t Radically Transform Society, But It’s Already Reshaping Business
 Originally published in Fast Company, Jan 5, 2024. Eric...
Calculating Customer Potential with Share of Wallet
 No question about it: We, as consumers have our...
A University Curriculum Supplement to Teach a Business Framework for ML Deployment
    In 2023, as a visiting analytics professor...

Industry News

The Science of Price Experiments in the Amazon Store

 Originally published in Amazon Science, April 14, 2023.   The requirement that at any given time, all customers see the same prices for the same products necessitates innovation in the design of A/B experiments. The prices of products in the Amazon Store reflect a range of factors, such as demand, seasonality, and general economic trends. Pricing

A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence

 Originally published in QuantaMagazine, April 13, 2023. Despite the wild success of ChatGPT and other large language models, the artificial neural networks (ANNs) that underpin these systems might be on the wrong track. For one, ANNs are...

The Complex Math of Counterfactuals Could Help Spotify Pick Your Next Favorite Song

 Originally published in MIT Technology Review, April 4, 2023. A new kind of machine-learning model built by a team of researchers at the music-streaming firm Spotify captures for the first time the complex math behind counterfactual analysis,...

Deep Agency Shows the Perils of Applying AI to the Fashion Industry

 Originally published in TechCrunch, March 27, 2023. Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper, announced Deep Agency, a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio...

Microsoft Lays Off Team That Taught Employees How to Make AI Tools Responsibly

 Originally published in The Verge, March 13, 2023. As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone. Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence...

Distributed Machine Learning at Instacart

 Originally published in Tech At Instacart, March 17, 2023. At Instacart, we take pride in offering a diverse range of machine learning (ML) products that empower every aspect of our marketplace, including customers, shoppers, retailers, and brands....

The Tech Behind Artifact, the Newly Launched News Aggregator From Instagram’s Co-Founders

 Originally published in TechCrunch, March 7, 2023.  Late last month, Artifact, a personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, opened to the public. The launch was a surprise to many consumers, who wondered why the team behind one of the world’s most...

Users’ Interests are Multi-Faceted: Recommendation Models Should Be Too

 Originally published in Spotify Research, Feb 22, 2023. A new approach to calibrating recommendations to user interests Users’ interests are multi-faceted and representing different aspects of users’ interest in their recommendations is an important factor for recommender...

What’s a “Listening Personality”?

The Complex Data Models Behind Shopify’s Tax Insights Feature

 Originally published in Shopify Engineering, Feb 8, 2023. A business’s taxes can be difficult to manage, especially in the United States. Tax laws are complicated and vary state-to-state, city-to-city, and product-to-product, further adding to the complexity. When...

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