176: The Machines Will Learn

About this Episode

On this episode of the Bike Shed Chris is joined by George Brocklehurst, development director in thoughtbot's New York studio. The conversation starts with a discussion around progressive enhancement and the state of the modern web, and then shifts to focus on George's recent explorations of machine learning. This episode is a perfect introduction to the topic of ML, and provides a great summary of why you might want to start working with it and how to go about that.

• Does Progressive Enhancement Have a Place in Today's Web?
• Vue.js
• Electron
• React Native
• React Native for Desktop

Frameworks and Tools For Exploring Machine Learning

• NumPy
• SciPy
• Jupyter Notebook
• Pandas
• scikit-learn
• Natural Language Toolkit (NLKT)
• spaCy
• gensim

Getting Started with Machine Learning:

• Intro to Machine Learning Workshop
• What is Machine Learning?
• Named Entity Recognition
• Recommending blog posts with machine learning

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