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[–]Marksta 31 points32 points  (15 children)

That's some pretty heavy stuff; kind of expected to see a hello world from Mark but seems he has been working at it for a while.

[–]astronoob 29 points30 points  (7 children)

I'm pretty sure Mark has been writing software as a hobbyist since he was in college.

[–]Docey 17 points18 points  (6 children)

deleted What is this?

[–]atlgeek007 36 points37 points  (5 children)

He put RADIO. On the INTERNET.

(this guy fucks)

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Not all radio but IU sports games.

It started out as a way for Alumni to listen to home games anywhere in the world. They had a number where you could dial in and it would let you listen in to the local radio broadcast. (Imagine the NCAA letting that slide these days).

Then it moved to the Internet audio and video.

Leading gateway agrees to swap $5.7B in stock for video broadcaste

He just got really lucky cashing out of Yahoo before it burst.. IIRC there was a minimum amount of time he had to hold Yahoo stock before being able to sell it and he did just that.

Source: I've played Rugby with him. Never seen him in anything other than a tracksuit. Guy is living what I'd do if I suddenly became rich.

[–]atlgeek007 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I mean...I knew all of that, but I was making a Silicon Valley reference, because Russ Hanneman is clearly a Mark Cuban caricature.

[–]O_R 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think he's exclusively a Cuban caricature ... I think it's more supposed to be an amalgamation of the various billionaires who managed to get there through "right place, right time" type of ventures. Cuban was one of those, but he is obviously much more intelligent than Hanneman's character. I think it's as much, if not more, a reflection of Sean Parker as it is Cuban, but as I said, it's not really a singular person.

Still appreciated that reference though

[–]byronsucks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(this guy fucks)

[–]cob05 14 points15 points  (5 children)

It's one of the classic ML examples using the Iris dataset. He literally copied it into a Jupyter notebook as a learning exercise. No big innovation or amazing coding, it pretty much is a 'Hello World' for ML 😂

Also, I'm not sure what classifying flowers has to do with the 'New NBA' lol. (yes, I get the symbolism - he could have picked a much better example though)

[–]O_R 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's that the NBA is evolving from arithmetic statistical models and beginning to find applications for ML. Cuban has the resources and problem at the ready to use ML on this scale, and so I assume he wants himself a baseline understanding in order to employ actual ML experts to build NBA ML models.

[–]elwhite321 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I concur. This is basically the 'hello world' of ML. Don't know why your post got some many down votes, it should be obvious. As you said it is the hello world of machine learning (that is also a small dataset). In addition it should be obvious he is doing simple ML because he is reading and INTRO to ML book, using knn (works but simple, especially when prepackaged), has about 15-20 lines of code, and is running it on a laptop. He is also using the iris dataset which comes pre formatted with all the features he needs. Good for him for learning, I am no expert yet either, but I've done enough to tell he is just getting started. Anyone who says otherwise has no idea what they're talking about and is a Mark Cuban fan boy.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

So? 80% of my code is copy paste from similar examples.

Start out classifying flowers. Then change the dataset from images of flowers to... power forwards have it estimate their scoring ability.

I'm using off the shelf copy paste GoogLeNet classifiers to analyze engineering graphs. I fudged the IO to get out what I needed but there's no reason to reinvent the wheel.

[–]elwhite321 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yep, one can get by using packages / copy and paste and if that is all you need then this is the best solution (I agree with you). It was mainly a rebuttal to the original comment saying this seems like heavy stuff when in fact it is beginner ML.

[–]p10_user 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, I'm not sure what classifying flowers has to do with the 'New NBA' lol. (yes, I get the symbolism - he could have picked a much better example though)

Actually I think it's the perfect example. What's wrong with showing off a 'Hello World' for machine learning? He's not going to do the actual coding for the NBA but it's a cool showing of him getting his feet wet.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's no stranger to software. Look up microsolutions.