{"id":1116,"date":"2015-02-11T20:52:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T20:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/two-data-points-human-vs-machine\/"},"modified":"2015-02-11T20:52:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T20:52:22","slug":"two-data-points-human-vs-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/two-data-points-human-vs-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Two data points: Human vs Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>O&#8217;Reilly: Human-in-the-loop Machine Learning<br \/><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2015\/02\/human-in-the-loop-machine-learning.html\">http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2015\/02\/human-in-the-loop-machine-learning.html<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stitch Fix\u2019s expert merchandisers evaluate each new piece of clothing and encode its attributes, both subjective and objective, into structured data, such as color, fit, style, material, pattern, silhouette, brand, price, and trendiness. These attributes are then compared with a customer profile, and the machine produces recommendations based on the model. <br \/>But when the time comes to recommend merchandise to the customer, the machine can\u2019t possibly make the final call. This is where Stitch Fix stylists step in. Stitch Fix hands off a final selection of recommendations to one of roughly 1,000 human stylists, each of whom serves a set of customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>New Yorker:\u00a0Netflix\u2019s Secret Special Algorithm Is a Human<br \/><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/business\/currency\/hollywoods-big-data-big-deal\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/business\/currency\/hollywoods-big-data-big-deal<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Netflix and its chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, have been the most outspoken proponents of data-driven programming, which they say was behind the company\u2019s biggest successes, such as \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d and \u201cOrange is the New Black.\u201d Soon after the d\u00e9but of \u201cHouse of Cards,\u201d David Carr, writing in the Times, pronounced that \u201cBig bets are now being informed by Big Data.\u201d [&hellip;] I do think that there is a sophisticated algorithm at work here\u2014but I think his name is Ted Sarandos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;Reilly: Human-in-the-loop Machine Learninghttp:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2015\/02\/human-in-the-loop-machine-learning.html Stitch Fix\u2019s expert merchandisers evaluate each new piece of clothing and encode its attributes, both subjective and objective, into structured data, such as color, fit, style, material, pattern, silhouette, brand, price, and trendiness. These attributes are then compared with a customer profile, and the machine produces recommendations based on the model. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}