I get a lot of emails asking about how I got interested in machine learning and about my background. I don’t think my story is special or interesting, but I’m happy to share it and honored I’m asked. This post feels a little self-indulgent. I figure it can be the definitive version of my story […]
Louis Dorard has released his book titled Bootstrapping Machine Learning. It’s a book that provides a gentle introduction to the field of machine learning targeted at developers and start-ups with a focus on prediction APIs. I just finished reading this book and I want to share some my thoughts. If you are interested, I have […]
The Python conference PyCon2014 has held recently and the videos for the conference are online. I have been working my way through the interesting machine learning ones and will share a few on this over the coming weeks. A great talk if you are starting out in data science or machine learning in python was […]
I came across an upcoming book that might interest you. It is titled Bootstrapping Machine Learning by Louis Dorard, PhD. A 40-page sample is provided and I enjoyed it. I think the final book will be a valuable read. Louis takes the position that machine learning is commoditized to the point where if you are an application developer, you don’t need to […]
This post is a spotlight interview with Jhonatan de Souza Oliveira on the topic of Bayesian Networks. Could you please introduce yourself? My name is Jhonatan Oliveira and I am an undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil. I have been interested in Artificial Intelligence since the beginning of college, when had […]
Machine Learning is a multidisciplinary field and it can be very confusing when you are getting started to differentiate machine learning from the closely related fields of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining. In this post you will learn about those fields that are related to machine learning. Specifically, you will learn about the boundaries of […]
It is important to know what is special right now to make machine learning an attractive field to study. Knowing why it is popular now can act like a guide together with knowledge of the promise that the field makes. It can highlight open questions and methods which are growth areas and why that may […]
What is Machine Learning? We can read authoritative definitions of machine learning, but really, machine learning is defined by the problem being solved. Therefore the best way to understand machine learning is to look at some example problems. In this post we will first look at some well known and understood examples of machine learning […]
You’re interested in Machine Learning and maybe you dabble in it a little. If you talk about Machine Learning with a friend or colleague one day, you run the risk of someone actually asking you: “So, what is machine learning?“ The goal of this post is to give you a few definitions to think about […]
Hello, my name is Jason Brownlee, PhD. I’m a father, husband, professional developer, and machine learning practitioner. I have a Masters and PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence and I’ve worked on machine learning systems for defense, startups, and severe weather forecasting. I started this community for two main reasons: 1) Because I find machine learning […]
