From Robotics to Machine Learning at Twitter

This chapter narrates the speaker's journey into machine learning, starting from their college robotics experience that led them to optimize robot performance for competitions. It details their career progression from theoretical studies to practical applications at Google and Twitter, highlighting the evolution of Twitter's Cortex team and their shift towards a customer-centric machine learning platform. The chapter also explores the architectural components of the Cortex platform, including features for model training, evaluation, and addressing algorithmic bias.