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Re:Ask HN: machine learning success stories? by pgbovine on Sunday July 04, 2010 @10:16PM (#1486964)
i think a lot of very lucrative successes are not in consumer-facing applications. i suggest reading Super Crunchers if you're looking for some very lucrative successes:

http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/supercrunchers/

Re:Ask HN: machine learning success stories? by jgrahamc on Monday July 05, 2010 @01:32AM (#1487374)
Really? I thought that book was lame.
Re:Ask HN: machine learning success stories? by ANINDIAN on Sunday July 04, 2010 @10:34PM (#1487005)
netflix, amazon