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Machine Learning Usecases for Pinterest.com & related Kosei Acquisition

This article represents thoughts on recent acquisition of Kosei, a commerce recommendation system, by Pinterest.com. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the key points described later in this article: How could Machine Learning help Pinterest fuel its overall growth? How could Kosei help Pinterest.com?   How could Machine Learning help Pinterest fuel its overall growth? Yet another acquisiton in the space of machine learning, Pinterest.com acquires Kosei to achieve some of the following objective: Better ad targeting for greater mometization from ad clicks. This looks to be a case of identifying users clusters based …

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