Google’s self-training AI turns coders into machine-learning masters

Re:Google’s self-training AI turns coders into machine-learn... by nolroz on Monday February 26, 2018 @09:16AM (#16465366)

I'm trying to start simple on my journey towards thinking more like a statistician and have long suspected this would be the case at many companies. Besides Bayesian models, do any other common methods seem to be ignored as often? Any suggestions resources that a newbie on the scene might use to educate themselves?

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Re:Google’s self-training AI turns coders into machine-learn... by yorwba on Monday February 26, 2018 @10:05AM (#16465753)

One simple method that is often good enough is k-nearest neighbors. Basically computing the k most similar training values to a test value and then averaging their outputs to get a prediction.

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Re:Google’s self-training AI turns coders into machine-learn... by nolroz on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:35PM (#16485420)

Thank you! I'll be sure to dig into k-nearest more as well.

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