Machine Box delivers the services via Docker containers, and Digital Ocean is a great place to host these containers in production. This guide will walk you through the steps required to deploy Facebox with Digital Ocean. TIP: Before you start, it’s important to remember that hosting on Digital Ocean comes with a small cost — it’s very competitive,...
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There are a lot of really great Machine-Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) providers out there; Azure, Google, Rekognition, etc. But for those of us who can’t send our data to the cloud, who need to train and tune models locally, and who need more control and ownership over our machine learning models, we have to look to a...
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I’ve been writing Go (Golang when not spoken) since r59 — a pre 1.0 release — and have been building HTTP APIs and services in Go for the past seven years. At Machine Box, most of my technical work involves building various APIs. Machine Learning is complicated and inaccessible to most developers, so my job is to...
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Recent school shootings have spurred students across the country to mobilize. However, instead of hitting the streets in protest, one group of students has turned to object recognition technology to detect and warn of possible threats to schools. The University of Texas at Dallas students have developed a system called iNotify that’s designed to stop...
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Since releasing Facebox, people have started to come up with some very interesting use cases. For example, partners like Pixitmedia have integrated Facebox into their storage platform so that customers can search and access all of their assets quickly. Another use case involves using face-verify.js to increase the security of any website by validating who is...
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I’ve been helping to implement machine learning into a lot of businesses, startups, enterprises, products, services, and apps now for a few years and these are some of my favorite use cases for machine learning that I’ve come across (so far)! Machine learning is exceptionally good at conducting repetitive tasks, finding patterns, and predicting outcomes....
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There are some great tools out there for A/B testing that let you automatically present a selection of different experiences — whether layout, colors, fonts, or content. They measure which is most effective, and you make a final decision on which one to go with. But what if we didn’t have to settle for one experience? What...
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Elon Musk warns that artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to robot death squads prowling the streets. Nearly three-quarters of Americans fret that AI could take away jobs. More than half of U.S. citizens are more concerned about AI’s impact on employment than they are about immigration or offshoring. So why then do 79 percent of...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) may become the best weapon against AI-enhancing drugs, with word that the World Anti-Doping Agency is planning to use AI pattern-recognition technology to detect signs of violations among athletes. WADA will use AI algorithms to search the repositories of data gathered by global anti-doping bodies, according to a report from iNews. The...
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Market research firms use a range of techniques to gauge consumer views—such as survey forms and phone interviews. However, such methods often present an incomplete and inaccurate picture, with consumer responses reflecting their views of just one moment in time—or indicating their aspirations rather than the realities of their views and habits. However, one startup...
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