Algorithms of the Intelligent Web, Second Edition

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Chapter 1. Building applications for the intelligent web

Figure 1.1. Overview of an intelligent algorithm. Such algorithms display intelligence because the decisions they make change depending on the data they’ve received.

Figure 1.2. Graphical overview of one aspect of the Google Now project. In order for Google Now to make predictions about your future locations, it uses a model about past locations, along with your current position. Priors are a way to distill initially known information into the system.

Figure 1.3. The intelligent-algorithm lifecycle

Figure 1.4. Taxonomy of intelligent algorithms

Figure 1.5. The machine-learning data flow. Data is used to train a model, which can then be applied to previously unseen data. ...