Learning Machine Learning

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

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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 [cached]free online courses, and even a [cached]good introduction to Deep Learning.

I've also come across a very neat paper, [cached]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