[machineman44]

Honestly, this is a good run through of resources and examples of different machine learning algorithms/techniques be it supervised, unsupervised, or model validation... however, the wording used and mistakes made when describing supervised learning or Naive Bayes shows that this is an attempt at taking an O'Rielly book and trying to summarize it in a short article... while making errors... How did it get so many points on ycombinator?

[princesspea]

Hi! I'm Stephanie Kim and wrote the article. This post and slides were from a talk I gave for a basic introduction to machine learning at a woman's programming conference in Seattle. I did update the language which was a mistake rather than a misunderstanding of Naive Bayes. I have professional machine learning experience and while I am definitely not an expert the talk was geared for web developers with no prior experience in machine learning. Thanks for your feedback.

[machineman44]

Hi Stephanie. Sorry if my comment sounded harsh and nit picky. I actually passed it off to a fellow software engineer at work and he found it really insightful and useful for the work he is doing. Not everybody makes the effort to share their knowledge and I really appreciate you doing so. Have a good day :)