176: The Machines Will Learn

On this episode of the Bike Shed Chris is joined by George Brocklehurst, development director in thoughtbot's New York studio. The conversation starts with a discussion around progressive enhancement and the state of the modern web, and then shifts to focus on George's recent explorations of machine learning. This episode is a perfect introduction to the topic of ML, and provides a great summary of why you might want to start working with it and how to go about that.

• Does Progressive Enhancement Have a Place in Today's Web?
• Vue.js
• Electron
• React Native
• React Native for Desktop

Frameworks and Tools For Exploring Machine Learning

• NumPy
• SciPy
• Jupyter Notebook
• Pandas
• scikit-learn
• Natural Language Toolkit (NLKT)
• spaCy
• gensim

Getting Started with Machine Learning:

• Intro to Machine Learning Workshop
• What is Machine Learning?
• Named Entity Recognition
• Recommending blog posts with machine learning