To help you incorporate machine learning techniques into your application development, we’re launching a new developer video series, Machine Learning: Recipes for Beginners. In the first few episodes, we’ll familiarize you with the ins and outs of machine learning without requiring any professional grounding (such as calculus). As the series progresses, we’ll take you from “Hello World” to solving some real World problems.

Videos are usually released biweekly, with only 5-10 minutes of lightweight content. Sometimes we have machine learning guests from different teams at Google.

Episode 1: Hello World

Your first machine learning program — 6 lines of Python code! In this episode, we’ll take a brief look at what machine learning is and why it’s important. Then, we’ll tackle the first recipe: supervised learning (a technique for creating classifiers from examples) and implement it programmatically.

Also, Coffee With a Googler is in New York City. Laurence and Josh talked about the importance of machine learning for developers and lowering the barriers to education. Here’s the video:

Introducing a new developer show “Machine Learning: Recipes for New Developers by Josh Gordon, Technical development engineer at Google

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