“As a human, your brain can approach most any situation and learn how to deal with that situation without any explicit instructions. If you sell houses for a long time, you will instinctively have a ‘feel’ for the right price for a house, the best way to market that house, the kind of client who woul…”— Adam Geitgey, medium.com
“During initial testing it became clear to us that much of the time users are going to be misunderstood. To put it bluntly, a huge proportion of messages will not be understood at all and there is little we can do about it. What we can do is anticipate user frustration and alleviate the situation by…”— Adam Radziszewski, blog.infermedica.com
“The model tries to build a set of hyperplanes in a high dimensional space that tries to separate instances of different classes by getting the largest separation between the nearest instances from different classes. The concept intuitively is simple, but the model can be very complex and powerful. I…”— Raúl Garreta, blog.monkeylearn.com
“To test the tree's performance on new data, we need to apply it to data points that it has never seen before. This previously unused data is called test data.”— r2d3, r2d3.us
“If I had to summarize machine learning in one sentence, I would say it is a collection of algorithms and techniques used to design systems that learn from data. But the algorithms of ML are very general in the sense usually they have a strong mathematical and statistical basis that does not take int…”— Debidatta Dwibedi, quora.com
“Second, the surveillance economy is way too dangerous. Even if you trust everyone spying on you right now, the data they're collecting will eventually be stolen or bought by people who scare you. We have no ability to secure large data collections over time.”— Maciej Cegłowski, idlewords.com
“When we talk about the moral economy of tech, we must confront the fact that we have created a powerful tool of social control. Those who run the surveillance apparatus understand its capabilities in a way the average citizen does not. My greatest fear is seeing the full might of the surveillance ap…”— Maciej Cegłowski, idlewords.com
“Those who benefit from the death of privacy attempt to frame our subjugation in terms of freedom, just like early factory owners talked about the sanctity of contract law. They insisted that a worker should have the right to agree to anything, from sixteen-hour days to unsafe working conditions, as…”— Maciej Cegłowski, idlewords.com
“Fortunately we are smart people and have found a way out of this predicament. Instead of relying on algorithms, which we can be accused of manipulating for our benefit, we have turned to machine learning, an ingenious way of disclaiming responsibility for anything. Machine learning is like money lau…”— Maciej Cegłowski, idlewords.com
“For many years, machine learning was considered a specialty, limited to an elite few. That era is over, as recent results indicate that machine learning, powered by ‘neural nets’ that emulate the way a biological brain operates, is the true path towards imbuing computers with the powers of humans, a…”— Stephen Levy, backchannel.com
“The Bot Engine relies on machine learning. It means that you can feed it sample conversations so that it can handle many different variations of the same questions.”— Romain Dillet, techcrunch.com