Tag: pinterest

Why is Machine Learning so Hard?

Machine Learning is a fascinating field that is rapidly emerging and heavily marketed as solution to many of today’s problems. Yet, the application of Machine Learning in a real-world production setting can be quite difficult to execute with promising results. In this post let’s examine what is Machine Learning and why it can be so… Read more Why is Machine Learning so Hard?

Pinnability: Pinterest’s machine learning models

According to google, Pinterest currently has 70 million monthly active users with number of photos (pins) growing 75% each year being 50 billion in 2015. With tens of millions of users (pinners) interacting with those pins each day one has to wonder how you manipulate algorithms to personalize each pinner’s view, making sure that they… Read more Pinnability: Pinterest’s machine learning models

Artificial Intelligence helps create startups to solve different problems

Last week, I enjoyed hearing about how Machine Learning helped Pinterest start up and scale to support the needs for millions of users, by Jure Leskovec who is the Chief Scientist at Pinterest and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His talk inspired me to look at the current landscape of artificial… Read more Artificial Intelligence helps create startups to solve different problems

Pinterest

Pinterest is marketing brilliance. Pretend it’s 2009 and we want to market internet stuff to the billions of pairs of eyes on the internet. The only question is how. Early indications from websites like StumbleUpon, Facebook, and Reddit have shown that people like to spend hours of their free time cruising endless streams of content.… Read more Pinterest

Scaling the content quality to keep your users pinned

Dreaming about the profound habit disruptions generated by the biggest consumer mobile applications of our generation is what makes me as an entrepreneur always seek for a better understanding of our world. Studying our most primitive habits allows us to identify a pattern that could potentially constitute a powerful opportunity. This understanding allows us to… Read more Scaling the content quality to keep your users pinned