Google Prediction API - Google Code

Re:Google Prediction API - Google Code by mrspandex on Monday July 18, 2011 @01:39PM (#2777231)

It's not quite clear to me what this actually does. How does training work? Do I give it input and actual decisions so that it can decide based on trends or is it more of a fuzzy match to known data?

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Re:Google Prediction API - Google Code by jvandenbroeck on Monday July 18, 2011 @01:52PM (#2777295)

It has been a while since I have checked it out, but you give it training data (examples + values) and then it will be able to predict values for unseen examples. Eg. predict if a comment on a blog post is spam.

Actually the google prediction api is already really old; I don't know why it shows up now on HN

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Re:Google Prediction API - Google Code by zoudini on Monday July 18, 2011 @02:05PM (#2777368)

I think it has something to do with this submission's mentioning it (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2776254)

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