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While Katrina Lake liked to shop online, she knew the experience could be much better. The main problem was it was tough to find fashions that were personalized.

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    Steve Lohr, “Microsoft, Amid Dwindling Interest, Talks Up Computing as a Career: Enrollment in Computing Is Dwindling,” New York Times, March 1, 2004, start page C1, quote page C2, column 6.

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    www.cnbc.com/2017/11/16/stitch-fix-ipo-sees-orders-coming-in-under-range.html

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    https://investors.stitchfix.com/static-files/2b398694-f553-4586-b763-e942617e4dbf

  4. 4.

    www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576942/000157694218000003/stitchfix201810k.htm

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    https://digiday.com/marketing/stitch-fix-ceo-katrina-lake-predicts-ais-impact-fashion/

  6. 6.

    Arthur L. Samuel, “Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers,” in Edward A. Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman, eds., Computers and Thought (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983), pp. 71–105.

  7. 7.

    https://history.computer.org/pioneers/samuel.html

  8. 8.

    www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

  9. 9.

    www.precisionhawk.com/blog/in-oil-gas-the-economics-of-bvlos-drone-operations

  10. 10.

    This information is from the author’s interview in February 2019 with Humair Ghauri, who is the chief product officer at CareerBuilder.

  11. 11.

    www.8451.com/case-study/avocado

  12. 12.

    www.engadget.com/2018/05/02/facebook-trained-image-recognition-ai-instagram-pics/

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    https://code.fb.com/ml-applications/advancing-state-of-the-art-image-recognition-with-deep-learning-on-hashtags/

  14. 14.

    This is from the author’s interview in February 2019 with Asaf Cidon, who is the VP of Email Security at Barracuda Networks.

  15. 15.

    https://towardsdatascience.com/simple-explanation-of-semi-supervised-learning-and-pseudo-labeling-c2218e8c769b

  16. 16.

    www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/the-netflix-prize

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    https://hbr.org/2018/11/curiosity-driven-data-science

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Taulli, T. (2019). Machine Learning. In: Artificial Intelligence Basics. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5028-0_3

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