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AI · December 15, 2011

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A machine learning Rails app to predict your favorite color

I'm nearing completion of the machine learning class offered online by Stanford (Prof. Andrew Ng is awesome). I wanted to try out some of the concepts I learned so I made up this little Rails app. I doubt if you can actually predict someone's favorite color based on a few preference, but we'll see how it looks after a few (thousand?) examples. I'm still working on it, but it's in a working state and I'm collecting all the data I want, so I can always rehash it later to tweak the algo. Any suggestions for a more interesting set of data to form predictions on? http://colorsvm.herokuapp.com/…

A machine learning Rails app to predict your favorite color launched on December 15, 2011 with 8 votes, #71 of 254 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

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I'm nearing completion of the machine learning class offered online by Stanford (Prof. Andrew Ng is awesome). I wanted to try out some of the concepts I learned so I made up this little Rails app. I doubt if you can actually predict someone's favorite color based on a few preference, but we'll see how it looks after…

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