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Re:Ask HN: What does your production machine learning pipeli... by bradneuberg on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @04:21PM (#13823919)
See my reply to dnt404 for two examples. We have nearly an exabyte of data at Dropbox ( https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/03/magic-pocket-infrastr... ); there's lots of interesting ML things we can do with that, whether its searching, suggestions, etc.
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Re:Ask HN: What does your production machine learning pipeli... by mattmanser on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @05:26PM (#13824497)
You have an exabyte of other peoples private data that you're mining and essentially exporting to other files?

Am i misunderstanding or are you admitting to severely abusing your users trust?

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Re:Ask HN: What does your production machine learning pipeli... by bradneuberg on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @05:59PM (#13824773)
See my original parent comment about not touching user data for privacy reasons :)
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Re:Ask HN: What does your production machine learning pipeli... by wbeckler on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @06:08PM (#13824844)
He says they don't use user data without explicit permission and they generate the training data using "turking," which means paying people to classify things manually.
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