Make: Volume 77

I

t was a long weekend of May 2020. Like many

of my human siblings stuck at home with time

on their hands due to an ongoing pandemic, I was

busy trying to perfect my bread recipe. In fact,

just a few days before, I had ordered a gas sensor

(Figure

A

) that I thought would be ideal to help

me monitor my sourdough starter and bake my

bread at just the right moment.

And then I thought about it some more.

“Surely, this is the perfect excuse for me to

finally start learning this machine learning thing

that everyone’s talking about. But … do I really

want to bake dozens of baguettes before I have

a training set large enough to teach an AI the

relationship ...