Machine Learning for Everyday Tasks

Machine learning is often thought to be too complicated for everyday development tasks. I have always felt like we can benefit from using machine learning for simple tasks that we do regularly. At Mailgun, we work with e-mail and as part of our offering, we parse HTML quotations. This allows a user to grab the latest reply instead of the entire conversation, which is returned as part of our webhook response. For those of you who don't know, here's what parsing HTML from the public Internet looks like: Changing the parsing library can help, but it won't solve the issue completely because every library has its limitations.