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It's not quite clear to me what this actually does. How does training work? Do I give it input and actual decisions so that it can decide based on trends or is
by mrspandex 15y ago
It's not quite clear to me what this actually does. How does training work? Do I give it input and actual decisions so that it can decide based on trends or is it more of a fuzzy match to known data?
- jvandenbroeck 15y agoIt has been a while since I have checked it out, but you give it training data (examples + values) and then it will be able to predict values for unseen examples. Eg. predict if a comment on a blog post is spam. Actually the google prediction api is already really old; I don't know why it shows up now on HN
- zoudini 15y agoI think it has something to do with this submission's mentioning it (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2776254 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2776254)