• Stay away from unsupervised learning
• Skip neural networks
  Plugging an on off-the-shelf model from sklearn is often enough for an MVP. While weeks of tuning a neural net might provide a couple extra points of f1, it’s often not worth it in the beginning.
• Frame all problems as binary classification
• Tune your hyper-parameters

In China, AI is the new God

• Huawei will take the lead in the research on AI infrastructure and software.
• Hikvision will take the lead in the research on AI infrastructure and software.
• Megvii will handle image perception.
• Yitu, image computing.