I remember at school when they started wording problems in ways that tried to match the real world. Fill in the blank questions like: 6 – 2 – 2 = ? were replaced with: “Billy has 6 sweets and gives 2 each to Bobby and Jill. How many sweets does Billy have left?” The same,
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’m not sure quite how I got on the Simple Programmer mailing list, but most weeks I get a few messages from the founder, John Sonmez. Lots of them are of the slightly annoying teaser variety that require you to read the whole thing until you get to the very last line. Or you have
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
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
So, we are still getting stuck into the maths this week, moving onto multivariate linear regression and some linear algebra stuff. It still just looks like stuff I did more than 20 years ago to solve tricky maths problems – done by dumb machines that happen to be able to add numbers up very quickly.
I have a part-time web development job. One page of this site shows text in two languages side by side. We want to be able to mouse-over a word in the source language on the left and have the translated word (or words) highlight in the other column. The problem is that there is a
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