Chapters: 

Machine Learning for more than Sales and Fraud Detection-- which just sounds so excruciatingly tedious I have to forge my own path!

 

Recipes

 

ML task

Example

Classification

Is this recipe runtime-ready?

Multi-label classification

Is it beans, greens, grains, soup, salmon, salad?

Feature extraction

Ingredient count, cooking method, pantry overlap, effort words

Embeddings

“chickpea bowl” and “white bean rice thing” are semantically close

Recommendation

“You have white beans, bok choy, rice, and broth. Here are likely matches.”

Clustering

Find natural recipe families without predefining categories

 

Plants

Observation

Possible features

Plant type

basil, lavender, poppy, pepper

Environment

indoor/outdoor, shelf, window, grow light

Soil

Promix, clay pot, drainage

Watering

last watered, water need

Growth status

sprouted, leggy, stalled, thriving

Photo evidence

leaf color, posture, density

Weather

humidity, temperature, cloudy/rainy