Learning Machine Learning

Fri 11 July 2014

Fortunately, it is getting easier and easier to get into machine learning. Just today, there was a post on HackerNews about a JavaScript neural network library. Can't get much easier than this:

var net = new brain.NeuralNetwork();

net.train([{input: [0, 0], output: [0]},
           {input: [0, 1], output: [1]},
           {input: [1, 0], output: [1]},
           {input: [1, 1], output: [0]}]);

var output = net.run([1, 0]);  // [0.987]

There's more and more free online courses, and even a good introduction to Deep Learning.

I've also come across a very neat paper, A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning, that is particularly helpful when you are first getting into machine learning.

And finally:

Tags: ai, programming