Practical Applications of Machine Learning

In the startup world, companies seem to live and die by buzzwords. If your company isn't using the latest "artificially-intelligent blockchain-based crypto-kazoo", then you're not startup sexy and investors' attention will be lost. Machine learning is a collection of statistical methods that used to only be sexy in the data and computer science academic world. Over the last three years, Google searches for the term "deep learning" has grown by 770%. And more and more startups are being created with machine learning at their core.