AI Phone App Learns Baseball Signals
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Watching a sport can be a bit odd if you aren't familiar with it. Most Americans, for example, would think a cricket match looked funny because they don't know the rules. If you were not familiar with baseball, you might wonder why one of the coaches was waving his hands around, touching his nose, his ears, and his hat seemingly at random. Those in the know however understand that this is a secret signal to the player. The coach might be telling the player to steal a base or bunt. The other team tries to decode the signals, but if you don't know the code that is notoriously difficult. Unless you have the machine learning phone app you can see in the video below.
[...] The code uses SDEC (Sequence-Domain Encompassed Correlations) to look for patterns in an ASCII string. We couldn't help but think this would probably be applicable to a lot of other things where you were looking for a sequence of things.
The video has a pretty good Sunday supplement explanation of machine learning. It includes some details like hidden layers without getting bogged down too much in math or actual coding. If you haven't dug into machine learning yet, this won't make you an expert, but it will give you some orientation.
If you want a more detailed explanation of how machine learning works, try this one. Even the Arduino can get in on the act.
The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmlRbfSavbI
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