The Bad Old Days When I first started programming (on a ZX81 no less) there was no such thing as APIs or libraries, or anything like that. The “platform” simply didn’t support that sort of thing. I could barely load 1KB programs from a tape cassette let alone “save” them and pass them on to
Category: opinion
I finished this course a couple of weeks ago now, so I thought I’d share my impressions of how I found it, and also what I think I want to do next as I continue on as a Human Learning Machine Learning (see what I did there?) The Good The Teacher Professor Ng is actually
A couple of months ago I wrote this post that predicted: Current techniques for Machine Learning are not going to produce human intelligence That was made after week three of the Intro to Machine Learning course at Coursera I was taking. Well, I finished the course last week, and in the final video, Professor Ng
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the trickiness of understanding exactly what is going on inside of a neural network. By the time I hit “post”, I had edited out the part of my post that said I understood the principle of how they worked, and so it looked like I just
I just read an article about a clash between Elon Musk and Stephen Pinker. Not that I know either of these two gentlemen personally, but it probably does a good job of explaining their positions and the issues. The general gist is that Elon Musk has serious concerns about unchecked general AI doing various “bad
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
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
Last week I enrolled in the beginners machine learning course at Coursera taught by Andrew Ng and have just finished week one. Having not done any Coursera courses before, it was interesting to see their approach to learning on-line. I particularly appreciate the fact I can get good quality teaching for no money – unless