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Mai Nguyen
Mai Nguyen
  • @happywinebot
After several years in Java and Ruby software development in Washington, DC, Mai left IT to pursue her passion for food and wine. She earned a Masters degree in wine science at the University of Adelaide, and continued on her journey, working in wine production in Australia, France, California, and New Zealand. Mai is now based in Wellington, and has since returned to the tech industry. Since then, she has been exploring ways to use technology to make wine more accessible to the public.

Food, Wine and Machine Learning: Teaching a Bot to Taste

To use machine learning effectively, you have to understand its strengths, limitations and look for creative ways to apply it. Even if you are already familiar with machine learning, we can all learn more! Let me show you how I have used machine learning to build a bot that can suggest a wine to accompany your next meal.

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