I finished week 5 of Machine Learning last week – it was part two of the introduction to neural networks. Although it starts with a visual representation of how the neurons in the brain work, course leader Professor Andrew Ng didn’t suggest this is really how the brain actually works. I’m no a neuroscientist, but
Month: February 2018
The other day my brother-in-law sent me a link for a documentary on NetFlix about Alpha Go. I told him I didn’t have a Netflix subscription, so couldn’t watch it. The next day my wife tells me she wants to show “The Sound of Music” to our kids and watch “The Crown” herself. So, we
So, I’ve finished the work for the third week of the machine learning course I am doing at Coursera. It was much the same as last week: heavy duty numeric analysis with some stats. I won’t go into the grisly details of how logistic regression works for classification problems – you’ll have to enrol yourself
In my previous blog, I gave a bit of a sketch of how to handle the problem of having a computer look at two pieces of translated text and figure out which words/phrases are the translation of other words/phrases – without teaching the computer anything about the two languages (i.e. no dictionaries) While the idea