[BonoboBoner]

Simple example? Before finishing the first paragraph, it says

"The slope and y-intercept of the line are determined using gradient descent."

What on earth does that mean? Maybe they should teach mathematics in english at universities outside of english speaking countries. German mathematics does not help here.

I wish there was a 4GL like SQL for machine learning using dynamic programming for algorithm selection and model synthesis like a dbms query planner.

PREDICT s as revenue LEARN FROM company.sales as s GROUP BY MONTH ORDER BY company.region

[sampo]

> "The slope and y-intercept of the line are determined using gradient descent."

Slope and intercept are very standard names for the parameters of a linear regression model. Gradient descent is the name of the algorithm used.

[spitfire]

This has been done before, though by who eludes me. I've seen it here on HN a few years ago.

and it is absolutely a good idea, as long as you include validation and QA abilities right along side train/predict.

[ice109]

an article written in english assumes familiarity with english vernacular? who would've thought!