Category: machine learning

How to Analyze Tweet Sentiments with PHP Machine Learning

As of late, it seems everyone and their proverbial grandma is talking about Machine Learning. Your social media feeds are inundated with posts about ML, Python, TensorFlow, Spark, Scala, Go and so on; and if you are anything like me, you might be wondering, what about PHP? Yes, what about Machine Learning and PHP? Fort...

PredictionIO and Lumen: Building a Movie Recommendation App

In the intro, we covered the basics of PredictionIO and installed its dependencies. In this part, we’re going to build the movie recommendation app.Environment Config File Inside your app directory, create a .env file and add the following configuration: APP_ENV=local APP_DEBUG=true APP_KEY=some-random-keyPIO...

PredictionIO: Bootstrapping a Movie Recommendation App

In this tutorial, I’m going to walk you through PredictionIO, an open-source machine learning server, which allows you to create applications that could do the following:recommend items (e.g. movies, products, food) predict user behavior identify item similarity rank itemsYou can pretty much build any machine le...

Building Microsoft’s What-Dog AI in under 100 Lines of Code

Rather recently, Microsoft released an app using AI to detect a dog’s breed. When I tested it on my beagle, though…Hmm, not quite, app. Not quite. In my non-SitePoint time, I also work for Diffbot – the startup you may have heard of over the past few weeks – who also dabble in AI. To test how they com...

Building Microsoft’s What-Dog AI in under 100 Lines of Code

Rather recently, Microsoft released an app using AI to detect a dog’s breed. When I tested it on my beagle, though…Hmm, not quite, app. Not quite. In my non-SitePoint time, I also work for Diffbot – the startup you may have heard of over the past few weeks – who also dabble in AI. To test how they com...

How to Make Your Web App Smarter with Image Recognition

Clarifai is an API which provides image and video recognition that is incredibly simple to use and a whole lot of fun to implement. In this article, we will explore dragging and dropping images from around the web into a simple web app that will read them and tell us what it believes they are. In this demo, we will be ...

Customizing Your Api.ai Assistant with Intent and Context

Api.ai is a really simple service that allows developers to create their own basic personal AI assistant that works a bit like Siri and Amazon’s Alexa. Last week, I covered how to build your own AI assistant using Api.ai where I showed the basics of setting up an AI assistant and accessing the pre-existing knowle...

Powerful Custom Entities with the Diffbot PHP Client

A while back, we looked at Diffbot, the machine learning AI for processing web pages, as a means to extract SitePoint author portfolios. That tutorial focused on using the Diffbot UI only, and consuming the API created would entail pinging the API endpoint manually. Additionally, since then, the design of the pages we ...