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33% off iRobot Roomba 652 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner - Prime Day Deal Alert

PCWorld

Your message has been sent. There was an error emailing this page. This is a Prime Day deal good for today only, and reserved for Amazon Prime members (or those with a free trial: sign up here). The Roomba 652 Vacuuming Robot provides a thorough clean at the push of a button. Preset Roomba to clean when it's convenient for you, so you can keep up with everyday mess.


Amazon isn't the only retailer celebrating Amazon Prime Day

Los Angeles Times

Call it a glorified ad campaign. Call it whatever you want, but Amazon's third annual Prime Day is here. Amazon introduced its first Prime Day in 2015 as a super sale exclusive to Prime members. Last year's installment increased global sales more than 60% compared with the first year. Unlike past iterations, which ran 24 hours, this year promises an extra six hours of savings, stretching from 6 p.m. Pacific Time Monday until the end of the day Tuesday.


Artificial Intelligence in Retail

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Over the last few years, artificial intelligence technology has made some interesting advancements across multiple industries. While it may not be so obvious to the end consumers, artificial intelligence has been applied in the retail sector as well. Even though not every retailer has been using it due to high costs, inaccessibility and proprietary systems, the largest players in the retailing have been pretty active about it. It's no wonder given the benefits AI can bring to the actual businesses. So how exactly can artificial intelligence help retail store owners?


Amazon In Your Home: New Tech Support Program Installs Your Alexa-Powered Smart Devices

International Business Times

As a company, Amazon's known for its periodic and unexpected investments and projects. The online retailer's latest initiative wants to bring its staffers into your home for tech support. Amazon has launched an in-home service that'll help users set up their Amazon Echo and integrate the device into their smart home. Through the Geek Squad-like program, Amazon employees can also be scheduled to make home appointments for Alexa consultations or perform installation and setup for smart home products like lights and thermostats. Read: Here's How To Get Alexa To Tell You When Your Amazon Package Is On Its Way Installation costs for smart home devices through the Amazon program vary depending on the difficulty of the products.


Big Data Analytics Methods: Modern Analytics Techniques for the 21st Century: The Data Scientist's Manual to Data Mining, Deep Learning & Natural Language Processing: Peter Ghavami: 9781530414833: Amazon.com: Books

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Big Data Analytics from Dr. Peter Ghavami is one of the most comprehensive and best manuals I've read so far. It's from a practitioner for us practitioners who take our advancement in big data analytics serious. It's a manual that helped me solving urgent analytical problems and generating the impact needed to convince senior deciders for correcting their course of action. Peter leads us through the chapters with simple yet compelling words, having the clear goal in mind, to help us improve in practice. Thereby he teaches effectively by following a path most likely most studies go.


How to Pick the Amazon Echo That's Right for You

TIME - Tech

If you've been contemplating purchasing one of Amazon's voice-enabled Echo smart speakers, now is a particularly good time to pull the trigger. Just in time for Amazon's Prime Day blowout sale, which kicks off at 9 p.m. ET on July 10, the company has slashed the prices of its Echo devices. The standard model will cost $89.99 Amazon's portable Tap speaker will be selling for $79.90, a $50 markdown. Amazon Echo Show with an Arlo security camera, Amazon will chop $75 off the total price. All Alexa-enabled devices can access third-party "skills," or voice apps, and are compatible with music streaming services including Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and TuneIn.


Amazon sets up its war rooms for Prime Day

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

If you're looking for a good deal, we're here to help. A piñata in the Amazon conference room where Prime Day coordinators gathered in 2015 to oversee the company's first Prime Day sale. The original event was code-named piñata. SEATTLE--At Amazon headquarters here, two floors of conference rooms are outfitted as war rooms, the better to absorb the crushing blow of 85 million Prime shoppers feverishly tapping on the best slow cooker deals. Prime Day (or Prime Day plus six hours) is almost here.


Algorithmic Learning Theory: 19th International Conference, ALT 2008, Budapest, Hungary, October 13-16, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science): Yoav Freund, László Györfi, György Turán, Thomas Zeugmann: 9783540879862: Amazon.com: Books

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2008, held in Budapest, Hungary, in October 2008, co-located with the 11th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2008. The 31 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers are dedicated to the theoretical foundations of machine learning; they address topics such as statistical learning; probability and stochastic processes; boosting and experts; active and query learning; and inductive inference.


Two Decades of Recommender Systems at Amazon.com

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Each person who comes to Amazon.com It's as if you walked into a store and the shelves started rearranging themselves, with what you might want moving to the front, and what you're unlikely to be interested in shuffling further away. The algorithms aren't magic; they simply share with you what other people have already discovered. The algorithm does all the work. It's computers helping people help other people, implicitly and anonymously. Since we wrote about the algorithm in IEEE Internet Computing in 2003,2 it has seen widespread use across the Web, including YouTube, Netflix, and many others.


Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems): Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank: 9780120884070: Amazon.com: Books

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I chose this book after looking at a number of options. The text is clearly written for individuals with an bachelor-level education in computer science. The author prefers pseudocode and text explanations of algorithms to equations, and when he does use equations they use clear, commonly understandable notation rather than the terse greek alphabet soup preferred by many of the more mathematically oriented authors. It should be pointed out that about 10% of the text of this book is devoted simply as a user manual for an open source MLA package called Weka. When I first realized this I almost flipped; I really didn't want a book that was devoted to gaining a surface understanding of a particular implementation of a set of algorithms.