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Re:Ask HN: What do you use Machine Learning for? by tobltobs on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:10AM (#14359179)
How do you get the data for training how a break-in looks like?
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Re:Ask HN: What do you use Machine Learning for? by marsRoverDev on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:33AM (#14359437)
Couldn't you just train it on genuine visitors and then use the probability of it being a genuine visitor to determine whether it is a break in?
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Re:Ask HN: What do you use Machine Learning for? by kmmlng on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @12:14PM (#14359895)
I imagine only training on genuine visitors would be tricky with any traditional classification approach. Even having a 90/10% split of positive/negative training data is difficult since a lot of classifiers will just degrade to a majority vote.

Maybe a Restricted Boltzmann Machine or something similar?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use Machine Learning for? by network_ops on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @12:17PM (#14359927)
I'm guessing this would also use data for time of day, and if anyone is at home
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Re:Ask HN: What do you use Machine Learning for? by headcanon on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:41AM (#14359517)
possibly some kind of anomaly detection, but I'm not sure how you would model the data.
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