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Hands On Machine Learning Chapter 3

Posted by Jack McKew on Sat 12 October 2019 in Machine Learning • Tagged with machinelearning, ai, python • 3 min read

Chapter 3 is focusing in on classification systems. As brought up earlier, most common supervised machine learning tasks are regression (predicting values) and classification (predicting classes). This chapter goes through the 'Hello World' of classification tasks, the MNIST dataset. The MNIST dataset is a set of 70,000 images of …

Hands On Machine Learning Chapter 2

Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 12 July 2019 in Machine Learning • Tagged with machinelearning • 3 min read

Chapter 2 is an end to end machine learning project, in which you pretend to be a recently hired data scientist for a real estate company. It cannot be emphasized enough that when learning about machine learning or any topic for that matter, it is best to actually experiment with …

Hands On Machine Learning Chapter 1

Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 14 June 2019 in Machine Learning • Tagged with machinelearning • 6 min read

I've recently been making my way through the book "Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and Tensorflow", and thought I will put a summary of the chapter as a post, along with my personal answers to each of the chapter's exercises. The book in particular is published by O'Reilly and can …

Episode 14 - Types of Machine Learning

Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 22 February 2019 in Machine Learning • Tagged with machinelearning, ai • 2 min read

With AI and Machine Learning becoming the buzzwords in technology for 2018 and the real world applications now maturing to show the benefits of this technology. It can be very confusing when first entering the world of AI and machine learning with new techniques coming out every other day in …