Anyone worked on ML (Machine Learning)

Stillie

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Hi all,

I'm wanting to get into Machine Learning, saw some cool things you can do with it.

Im wondering if anyone has seen some free(im cheap i know) machine learning tuts out there. I had a look around and can only find ones that discuss the theory of it and no real tuts out there.

Any one here successfully done a project of machine learning? If so where did you learn your stuffs??
 
I think the best person around here to ask is @cguy , since its his line of work, but he's in the US, so you might have to wait a while until he wakes up :)
 
Udemy or the Azure. The latter is free but got a Udemy course for R120 at some point.

Mind sharing the stuff you saw
 
Pho3nix said:
Udemy or the Azure. The latter is free but got a Udemy course for R120 at some point.

Mind sharing the stuff you saw
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This guy has a great playlist of his attempt at ML but he doesnt discuss the code or anything like that, just discussing his ways of doing the ML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX2Hyu5WoFg&list=PL0nQ4vmdWaA0mzW4zPffYnaRzzO7ZqDZ0

He created a game that allows you to try your ML project on so maybe you can work on that for an understanding. I honestly havent looked at the source yet.

His videos are quite entertaining as well.

This is also really interesting, would love to build something like this for sheets and giggles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIBisqx9_g&t=630s

I have started this but these two from Udacity drag on about silly nonsense so i am just trying to get on through the first couple vids as they talk more than show us the ML part https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-machine-learning--ud120

EDIT: She is really cute :p
 
I misread it as Machine Language and thought who the hell would want to learn that?! :crylaugh:
 
Stillie said:
Hi all,

I'm wanting to get into Machine Learning, saw some cool things you can do with it.

Im wondering if anyone has seen some free(im cheap i know) machine learning tuts out there. I had a look around and can only find ones that discuss the theory of it and no real tuts out there.

Any one here successfully done a project of machine learning? If so where did you learn your stuffs??
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Without the theory, you aren't going to have a whole lot of success. I suggest the courses on coursera and udacity for this. If you want something more practical, you can try looking up the various API examples and documentation e.g., Tensor-flow, OpenCV, OpenML or Amazon's ML APO, etc. Once again, a lot of this won't make sense if you don't understand the theory.

I've picked it up over my career, learning mostly from text books, and evolving the system we use at work. I have never used a 3rd party API for ML though.

YingYang said:
I think the best person around here to ask is @cguy , since its his line of work, but he's in the US, so you might have to wait a while until he wakes up :)
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Still up. It's been a loooong day. :)
 
cguy said:
Without the theory, you aren't going to have a whole lot of success. I suggest the courses on coursera and udacity for this. If you want something more practical, you can try looking up the various API examples and documentation e.g., Tensor-flow, OpenCV, OpenML or Amazon's ML APO, etc. Once again, a lot of this won't make sense if you don't understand the theory.
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I use OpenCV in one of my java apps but in terms of ML, where/what else can it be used for? Facial recognition? Any examples?
 
I live in a small community which has 3 entrances via road into the Neighborhood, recently we have been having a problem with break ins I was thinking if it was possible to get a camera that can automatically take pics of all cars entering the neighborhood and save the JPEG file with metadata that will include the license plates of the cars
 
mmmig said:
I live in a small community which has 3 entrances via road into the Neighborhood, recently we have been having a problem with break ins I was thinking if it was possible to get a camera that can automatically take pics of all cars entering the neighborhood and save the JPEG file with metadata that will include the license plates of the cars
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this sort of Machine Learning will help, it identifies people, cars etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIBisqx9_g&t=630s
 
CamiKaze said:
I use OpenCV in one of my java apps but in terms of ML, where/what else can it be used for? Facial recognition? Any examples?
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Since it's a computer vision library, it can be used for things requiring a computer to "see". OCR like digitizing documents, understanding where fields are on a form that require, for example, a signature, parsing vehicle license plates and storing them somewhere...
 
Messugga said:
Since it's a computer vision library, it can be used for things requiring a computer to "see". OCR like digitizing documents, understanding where fields are on a form that require, for example, a signature, parsing vehicle license plates and storing them somewhere...
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Cool, i use it in minimum capacity, where I just get the image of whatever the camera is looking at.
 
CamiKaze said:
I use OpenCV in one of my java apps but in terms of ML, where/what else can it be used for? Facial recognition? Any examples?
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I've done Haar Cascade and Fisherfaces OpenCV training. Handy for identifying objects and classes.
 
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