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Ha! I've been in the same position, reading what I can and looking out for a good application to try it on. I saw a quote around here like "Data has gravity;

Ha! I've been in the same position, reading what I can and looking out for a good application to try it on. I saw a quote around here like "Data has gravity; the computation will move to it." (I think this was Nadella at Build.) This is true for ML in a way that was not true for previous computer applications (I mean, mainstream applications of computers). You could write an image filter or an audio effect (or a spreadsheet, or a mail client, etc) with no data at all (or a small amount of ad-hoc test data). But this suggests a subversion in the problem-finding process. Instead of thinking about what problems algorithms could solve, you have to look for large corpuses of data. It does feel like a paradigm shift that should engage our self-interest, if nothing else.

cr0sh 9y ago
> looking out for a good application to try it on. Self driving vehicles - or other robotics localization and similar problems. Those are fun, at least, I find them fun. I've also considered stuff in the graphics arts - like the various "deep dreaming" things, or the various ML filtering of images (turning a painting into a "photo" for instance); there's some interesting possibilities there. But for me - robots are where it's at. The idea of making a machine that can "do its own thing" intelligently - well, that has fascinated me ever since I was a small child and watched the original 1970s "Buck Rogers" series with my dad.