Back in 2015, I helped launch The Pulse—a news app quietly flexing machine learning long before it was today’s online buzzword.

It was all about getting “more news in less time.”

We cared about real-time data, AI-powered summaries (fancy NLP stuff), and predictive models that spotted trending stories before they went viral.
Yeah, we were doing that a decade ago.

Our backend agent could take a dense article and shrink it into something you could skim in seconds.
Meanwhile, The Pulse was all about figuring out content people couldn’t stop reading and pushing it to the top (like a rising article—that involved a propensity score). Users could even filter by trends thanks to clever linear regression and other ML model types.

Basically it was a smarter way to experience the news, and honestly it was ahead of it's time.

What else are we doing now that’ll be “cool” in 2035?

— Josh
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