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This is a long shot, but some years back Robert X. Cringley had a column talking about a company (possibly out of Israel) who did training for a business optimi
by mcphage 7y ago
This is a long shot, but some years back Robert X. Cringley had a column talking about a company (possibly out of Israel) who did training for a business optimization technique. At at some point one of the owners decided to try it on chocolate chip recipes, and it worked out really well. Does that ring a bell for anyone?
- rozim 7y agoFrom Google, "Bayesian Optimization for a Better Dessert": https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/f52ac33bc9d1adecd3a8037a7009b185fd934f0e.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... This is a lighter presentation of the same: https://9to5google.com/2017/12/04/google-smart-cookie-recipe-ai/ https://9to5google.com/2017/12/04/google-smart-cookie-recipe...
- mcphage 7y agoThis wasn’t what I was thinking of (time period was ~2010), but is very interesting nonetheless—so thank you!