Machine Learning is Winning the Holiday Shopping Season

Facebook recently announced a rather scenically named system, Big Sur, designed around Nvidia's Tesla compute cards aimed at helping their neural networks, and obviously machine learning, become faster and more versatile. They are, of course, not alone. IBM Watson has similar visions as does Microsoft. Big Data and analytics have long staked claim to the holiday shopping season, but I sense that this 2015 holiday shopping season the real big winner will be Machine Learning. The big gun in the Machine Learning camp is the aforementioned IBM Watson.