Machine learning is commonly used these days. Even if you haven’t directly used it personally, you’ve almost certainly encountered it. From checking your credit card purchases to prevent fraudulent transactions, through to sites like Amazon or IMDB telling you what things you might like, it’s a way of making sense of the large amounts of data that are increasingly accessible. Supervised learning […]
The long dark tea time of the computer programmer
The way in which Information Technology is taught in England is so dull and harmful it should be scrapped – that’s the view of the Education Secretary Michael Gove. ‘A nation of digital illiterates’ (BBC) Many years ago there was a total corporate take-over of the computer software sector in the UK. Big money was […]