Make: Volume 75

Machine learning is getting lots of attention

in the maker community, expanding outward

from the realms of academia and industry and

making its way into DIY projects. With traditional

programming you explicitly tell a computer what

it needs to do using code; with machine learning

the computer finds its own solution to a problem,

based on examples you’ve shown it. You can use

machine learning to work with complex datasets

that would be very difficult to hard-code, and the

computer can find connections you might miss!

HOW MACHINE LEARNING WORKS

How does machine learning (ML) actually work?

Let’s use the classic example: training a machine

to ...