Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale
Meh. The more I do machine learning in industry the more I realize how little the ML part matters compares to everything else. A typical project I've seen takes 3-6 months and contains thousands lines of code, but the machine learning part will take a week or two and be 100 lines of code. What Amazon ML is doing would probably take an hour and 30 lines of R code you can easily find online.And here's the not-too-hidden secret: the ML part is the fun part. It's a big reason we spend months creating banking.csv. Josh Willis did a very funny presentation at MLconf partly about this. It's like waiting in line at a theme park for an hour, and then paying someone to cut in line at the last minute and record the ride for you.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gwf5zsg4vI&feature=youtu.be...