machine-learning

Hacking an epic NHL goal celebration with a hue light show and real-time machine learning

This post does a deep dive on the **epic goal celebration hack**. In a single sentence, I trained a machine learning model to detect in real-time that a goal was just scored by the Habs based on the live audio feed of a game and to trigger a light show using Philips hues in my living room.

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The Too Good To Be True Filter

At Datacratic, one of the product we offer our customers is our real-time bidding (RTB) optimisation that can plug directly into any RTBKit installation. We’re always hard at work to improve our optimisation capabilities so clients can identify valuable impressions for their advertisers. Every bid request is priced independently and real-time feedback is given to the machine learning models. They adjust immediately to changing conditions and learn about data they had not been exposed to during their initial training. This blog post covers a strange click pattern we started noticing as we were exploring optimized campaign data, and a simple way we can use to protect our clients from it.

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From prototype to product: Building Datacratic's real-time machine learning platform

Slides from the talk I gave at the 2013 Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

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programming

MapReduce avec parallel, cat et une redirection

Cet article traite d'un problème auquel nous avons fait face était de rendre possible l’exécution de notre modèle sur des centaines de milliers d’utilisateurs dans un temps très court. Il y avait un gain très grand à réaliser en changeant simplement la manière dont nous traitions chaque utilisateur.

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