Having dodged that bullet myself I can tell you exactly how the baksheesh machine works.

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Hotz likes to hack according to the early definition of the word: getting inside a machine to see how it works, and changing it.

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He explained that he pursued his work more to learn how the human brain works than to learn about how to build a more sophisticated machine.

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By understanding how a fully oiled analytics machine works, you would be able to see where you are in the process and what you need to do to get there.

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