Machine Learning in Real Life: Tales from the Trenches to the Cloud – Part 1

So I recently did a talk at the Jozi Developer User Group and I was asked to turn it into a blog post, so here it goes. We live in a world where everyone knows enough about the Buzzwords "Deep Learning" and "Big Data" to write shitty buzzfeed articles about (leaving this here as it will prompt another article). On the other hand, we also live in a world where if you're a developer you can, while knowing nothing about machine learning, go from zero to training a OCR model in the space of an hour. Give it a few more hours, and you can have yourself your very own Trump-like tweet generator. The world of machine learning is extremely open.