Thanks for the great feedback Sanjeev, I appreciate it.

My goal has always been to raise awareness and inspire not Machine Learning-savvy people to get close to it, understand how it works, and its endless possibilities (without worrying them too much about the challenges behind).

After this blogpost got viral, I’ve been overwhelmed by people that wanted tips on how to approach the subject and told me how I inspired them to start learning new things: the results far exceeded my expectations and filled me with joy.

Unfortunately, some ML experts judged my title pretentious and completely missed what the goal was. I thought it was clear that this week work wasn’t enough to build a $500M company (it was just enough to build a blogpost…) and the title was a provocation. Next time I’ll write a more precise introduction for them :)

Regarding your question, there’s a ton of possibilities in this field. I don’t know specifically about clustering techniques, but I’d like to redirect you to the work of Riccardo Sabatini, an Italian researcher working in San Francisco on what probably is the most impressive application of Machine Learning I’ve ever seen.