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Watson

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Aug 25, 2015

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This machine learning algorithm beat the human champions at Jeopardy. What is... Watson?

Released:

Aug 25, 2015

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Linear Digressions is a podcast about machine learning and data science. Machine learning is being used to solve a ton of interesting problems, and to accomplish goals that were out of reach even a few short years ago.

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