Anyone working in "Machine Learning"?

[eek]

Commercial version of what?

Machine Learning. I would have thought that was obvious from the thread title....

PS You need to read the history of Watson. There are a number of times that he's had to be reset to unlearn things which didn't really help....

[sasguru]

Machine Learning. I would have thought that was obvious from the thread title....

PS You need to read the history of Watson. There are a number of times that he's had to be reset to unlearn things which didn't really help....

Machine Learning is a collection of techniques you nincompoop.
So it doesn't make sense to say there's a commercial version of "it".
Quite apart from the fact that machine learning techniques are used in a variety of applications from spam detection, amazon recommendations, google search etc etc etc.

Jeez, the yoof of today.

[DimPrawn]

Seems to me that Machine learning is bringing together the things I enjoy most workwise: algorithmic programming and statistical modelling.

It's the perfect match sassy!

Artificial Intelligence meets Natural Stupidity.

[Dominic Connor]

It's a pizza

Asa SasGuru says, Machine Learning like AI is a wide mix of skills and applications and is where some people are making very good money.

The biggest money is in algorithmic treading, that is essentially unbounded if you do it well.
However that is always going to be a niche and these guys are clinically paranoid, as a pimp how shall I define that ?

OK, how about refusing even to give me a job specification, saying things like "I want someone like me" and "we'll know them when we see them".

This means they are a lot less than keen on contractors who they feel will do 6 months and walk off with their secrets.

But if you multiply pay * the number of people getting it, the big game is Data Science, the posh neighbour of Big Data.
Everyone and their cat is deeply into trawling through all their data trying to find out ways of selling stuff better.

[AtW]

Seems to me that Machine learning is bringing together the things I enjoy most workwise: algorithmic programming and statistical modelling. Especially with Bayesian techniques coming to the fore recently, which are more computationally intensive than frequentist methods.
Anyone working in this area commercially?

This forum is mostly made up from VB6 failures who could not adapt to ways of .NET - nevermind machine learning...

[mudskipper]

[AtW]

He is still playing with cubes -

[aussielong]

Seems to me that Machine learning is bringing together the things I enjoy most workwise: algorithmic programming and statistical modelling.
Especially with Bayesian techniques coming to the fore recently, which are more computationally intensive than frequentist methods.
Anyone working in this area commercially?

Assguru, Weighted moving average is not machine learning.

You make me laugh, sat on your own at home, googling for your skillset. Waiting for your fat accountant wife to come home and cook the tea.

What a loser.

[sasguru]

Assguru, Weighted moving average is not machine learning.

You make me laugh, sat on your own at home, googling for your skillset. Waiting for your fat accountant wife to come home and cook the tea.

What a loser.

hey Ozzie, how's it going?
Not a very original attempt is it?
I'm glad you're discussing machine learning and stats though, shows you want to move away from being a junior code monkey.
Actually you are wrong, weighted moving average is the first step in finding components of time series, if I remember correctly. Which is part of stats modelling, whose techniques are being incorporated into machine learning.
But I'm not working on that right now - I'm working on some Bayesian regression.

PS Keep your job serving drinks at Sydney Sports Club for now - there's not much demand for bog standard coders in London, Bob has sewn that market up.

[shaunbhoy]

It's the perfect match sassy!

Artificial Intelligence meets Natural Stupidity.

POTD!!!