Hunting for planets with machine learning

[tosh]

https://www.blog.google/technology/ai/hunting-planets-machine-learning/

[mistrial9]

in case you are thinking Google invented this somehow.. super 'star' Prof Joshua Bloom at Berkeley, founding member of Berkeley Institute of Data Science, has been running workshops and post-docs on exactly this for the last four or five years..

The new part here is that it features TensorFlow, among other things.. it is an excruciatingly detailed subject in practice.

[rasmi]

If you're interested, this project is open source!

https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/as...

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/03/open-sourcing-hunt-for-exo...

[SiempreViernes]

A vastly more interesting blog post about the same work: https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/03/open-sourcing-hunt-for-exo...

It contains many more details, like techniques used to investigate what their net was actually using to decide and a link the the actual paper.