Amazon to Sell Predictions in Cloud Race Against Google and Microsoft - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Stephen Dale on 10 Apr 15Amazon Web Services announced that it was selling to the public the same kind of software it uses to figure out what products Amazon puts in front of a shopper, when to stage a sale or who to target with an email offer. The techniques, called machine learning, are applicable for technology development, finance, bioscience or pretty much anything else that is getting counted and stored online these days. In other words, almost everything.