Wednesday, April 4, 2018

You are not Worth Much, but Your Info Is

Why? Because your info can be sold easily, but you cannot. Your info can be turned into bits, and sent over the Internet - but you cannot. Your info can be digitized, but this cannot be done for your hot little (or not-so-little) body.

While all this is true, more needs to be said - about Machine Learning (ML). Until now, you had to make a computer app smart yourself, and this was not easy. With ML, you give it lots of data - and it gets smart from that. If you give it the right kind of data.

Consider how Gmail decides, what to put in your Spam folder. Gmail had email from millions of users, in the past - and whether those users considered it Spam. Its computers put all this info together, and came up with a software model that does this for you. If you find something in your Spam folder, that is not spam - this info is sent back to Google, so its model works even better!

How does it do this? Google tells you how in its Machine Learning Crash Course (MLCC). It also explains TensorFlow for you - if you are looking for some black magic, you will find it there.

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