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Stata predicts IT infrastructure will move to the cloud by 2026
“My personal view is, you know, 10 years from now, where it's going is clear, and I think that, when I started the company, companies like Bloomberg, for example, would say, no way, no how, we'll never do anything like, you know, like, you know, big data in the…”
Stata predicts all companies will become internet companies
“I believe everybody, all companies are going to become internet companies.”
Stata: Internet company system architecture transfers directly to traditional enterprises
“Now when you, when the onstage kind of becomes buildings and printers and trucks, you know, my claim is that this architecture really doesn't change. And a lot of what we learned from an from an architecture and system design perspective will transfer fairly d…”
Real-time reinforcement learning outperformed predictive click models at Yahoo
“Instead of trying to predict what people would like, let's, let's, let's run experiments in real time and see what people click on. And that turned out to generate very good click through rates.”
Yahoo combined human editors with reinforcement learning for content personalization
“Where this ultimately went then was kind of a system that, that Brought man and machine together, where the editors would propose anywhere from 20 to hundred, and over time, 200 different stories that they think might be good. And the reinforcement learning wo…”