Teaching computers to read was one of the 20th century's great challenges. At first, the secret to optical character recognition was purpose-built type. (more…)

New research out of the University of Chicago illustrates the conflict that has arisen in the past ten years between the SEO benefits of long-form content, and the difficulty that machine learning systems have in gleaning essential data from it. In develo... (more…)

Part 2 of my series on working with Naive Bayes for text classification... (more…)

The definition of an edge device can vary greatly from application to application, and it includes devices ranging from smartwatches to self-driving cars and everything in between. Currently, the… (more…)

Recently, a few people asked me about machine learning. How the hell on earth does it work?! Their chief issue was they could not get the… (more…)