2019/02/24
Problem Representations and Model-Based Machine Learning
Back in 2003, Paul Graham, of Viaweb and Y Combinator fame, published an article entitled “Better Bayesian Filtering”. I was scrolling chronologically through his essays archive the other day when this article stuck out to me (well, the “Bayesian” keyword). After reading the first few paragraphs, I was a little disappointed to realize the topic was Naive Bayes rather than Bayesian methods. But it turned out to be a tale of implementing a machine learning solution for a real world application before anyone dared to mention AI in the same sentence.