{"id":22135,"date":"2015-12-13T12:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T17:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=22135"},"modified":"2015-12-13T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T17:30:06","slug":"a-new-object-recognition-algorithm-could-change-the-face-of-machine-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/12\/13\/a-new-object-recognition-algorithm-could-change-the-face-of-machine-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Object-Recognition Algorithm Could Change the Face of Machine Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Motherboard<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/a-new-object-recognition-algorithm-could-change-the-face-of-machine-learning\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Motherboard article\">A New Object-Recognition Algorithm Could Change the Face of Machine Learning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe report, which comes courtesy of researchers at NYU and MIT, introduces the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bayesian_probability\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"WikiPedia article on Bayesian probability\">Bayesian<\/a> program learning (BPL) framework, a new machine learning model capable of mimicking the human mind&#8217;s capacity for generalizing from single examples. It&#8217;s a model that &#8220;learns to learn.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/shT-dFKU2WA?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>I am always interested in possible breakthroughs that might lead to being able to do things that we didn&#8217;t think were possible before.  I have heard of Bayesian probability before, but since I have always had troubles understanding some aspects of probability, it does not surprise me that I am having trouble coming to terms with Bayesian probability.  My learning experience tells me that the more times I read about a topic, the more I come to understand it.  That is why I find it useful to read things that I do not understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motherboard has the article A New Object-Recognition Algorithm Could Change the Face of Machine Learning. The report, which comes courtesy of researchers at NYU and MIT, introduces the Bayesian program learning (BPL) framework, a new machine learning model capable of mimicking the human mind&#8217;s capacity for generalizing from single examples. It&#8217;s a model that &#8220;learns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22138,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22135\/revisions\/22138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}