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Ex-Googler Launches Chadwick: A Slick AI-Based App That Helps You Track NBA Games On The Go

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http://techcrunch.com – With the NBA season now fully underway and our attention spans being continuously pushed to the max (not to mention Yahoo’s pissing off fantasy football fans), it seems like the perfect time to introduce you to The Chadwick Project. Nikolai Yakovenko, a former Google Search engineer and rabid basketball fan, founded Chadwick earlier this year to bring some machine learning and artificial intelligence to NBA coverage in an attempt to reduce the noise and personalize our consumption thereof. Chadwick, now live on the App Store and Google Play, is what Yakovenko calls a “non-intrusiv (IT news)

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