Sorry folks – this isn’t supposed to be click bait. Yeah, like “text prediction” is ever going to be click bait that breaks the internet… You’ll never guess what happened after the user type in ‘th’ Or how about… The 5 most commons words that get predicted if you type ‘hi’ Enough of the corny
Text prediction is popping up in more and more places these days. For years, it was the sole preserve of mobile phones as an aid to speed up creating text messages created with nasty mobile phone number pads. I think I then started noticing it in search engines as they tried to guess what you
It has been a while since I have looked at this. Lockdown has kept me busier than I might have liked. But anyway, as promised, I have updated the code to analyse (and then generate) not just on a character by character basis as in the previous post, but by a word-by-word basis. Actually, I
In the last post, we were talking about counting the number of times n-character text chunks appeared in a given sample text. The idea is that if we know the probabilities different characters follow a given chunk, we can use this to generate new texts that match the style of the sample text. It’s likely
When I was in high-school I did a project for my maths class that involved having a computer “read” a piece of text, break it into chunks of consecutive characters and count how many times those chunks appeared in the text. The idea was that based on the number of times these chunks appeared in
The Bad Old Days When I first started programming (on a ZX81 no less) there was no such thing as APIs or libraries, or anything like that. The “platform” simply didn’t support that sort of thing. I could barely load 1KB programs from a tape cassette let alone “save” them and pass them on to
I finished this course a couple of weeks ago now, so I thought I’d share my impressions of how I found it, and also what I think I want to do next as I continue on as a Human Learning Machine Learning (see what I did there?) The Good The Teacher Professor Ng is actually
A couple of months ago I wrote this post that predicted: Current techniques for Machine Learning are not going to produce human intelligence That was made after week three of the Intro to Machine Learning course at Coursera I was taking. Well, I finished the course last week, and in the final video, Professor Ng
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the trickiness of understanding exactly what is going on inside of a neural network. By the time I hit “post”, I had edited out the part of my post that said I understood the principle of how they worked, and so it looked like I just
[This is a long post – the next couple I have planned are much shorter and less technical] In my last post, I shared an idea I’d had about wiring up some training data and using machine learning (ML) to beat my daughter in a simple strategy game called Mancala. In this post, I want