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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department. “The machine learning model is not a static piece of code  —  you’re constantly feeding it data,” says one Google engineer. It’s a different kind of engineering.”

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai. Those issues slowed us down on the product side as well.