Chicago police has a Minority Report style system that tries to predict who will commit crimes: https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/19/5419854/the-minority-report-this-computer-predicts-crime-but-is-it-racist (false positives?)
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I'm surprised by how many different weather forecasts I can get out different apps. Surely there aren't many API providers for weather predictions?
Alternative conspiracy theory: do weather apps that predict nicer weather get more downloads?
I've worked at companies where buying more computers was more affordable than developers, and I've also been at places where it's the opposite.
It's really weird having the different mindsets. Sometimes it even varies between teams and I rarely predict it in advance.
A fun project for generating random Stack Overflow questions with a neural net: https://stackroboflow.com/about/index.html
It's also fascinating to read that the author was unable to predict question popularity, even by manual examination.