Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Sign up for free
Menu
Search
Features
All features
Private URLs
Password Protection
Custom URLS
Scheduled publishing
Remove Branding
Restrict embedding
Deck Collections
Notes
Features
All features
Private URLs
Password Protection
Custom URLS
Scheduled publishing
Remove Branding
Restrict embedding
Deck Collections
Notes
Explore
Featured decks
Featured speakers
Programming
Technology
Storyboards
Explore
Featured decks
Featured speakers
Programming
Technology
Storyboards
Pricing
Search
Sign in
Sign up for free
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto: Machine Learning with...
Search
Sponsored
·
Your Podcast. Everywhere. Effortlessly.
Share. Educate. Inspire. Entertain. You do you. We'll handle the rest.
→
Eric Weinstein
November 10, 2016
Technology
1.6k
1
Share
Embed
Copy iframe code
Copy JS code
Copy link
Start on current slide
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto: Machine Learning with Ruby
Slides for my RubyConf 2016 talk on machine learning.
Eric Weinstein
November 10, 2016
More Decks by Eric Weinstein
See All by Eric Weinstein
Interview Them Where They Are
ericqweinstein
0
180
Value Your Types!
ericqweinstein
0
130
Being Good: An Introduction to Robo- and Machine Ethics
ericqweinstein
1
2.1k
What If...?: Ruby 3
ericqweinstein
1
250
Infinite State Machine
ericqweinstein
1
160
Do Androids Dream of Electronic Dance Music?
ericqweinstein
1
140
Machine Learning with Elixir and Phoenix
ericqweinstein
1
1k
Machine Learning with Clojure and Apache Spark
ericqweinstein
1
470
A Nil Device, A Lonely Operator, and a Voyage to the Void Star
ericqweinstein
1
1.1k
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
Multica × 長期記憶:40個のミニプロジェクト管理
eiei114
1
250
HRC_Frontend_Conference_Fukuoka_2026.pdf
ts020
0
500
GoCon2026 - Open Source, Open World
sanposhiho
4
3.2k
アプリログインとWeb認証基盤をつなぐ ASWebAuthenticationSession 作法
shimastripe
1
200
あるけみー式LTスライド作成術
alchemy1115
1
180
Reactの設計論
uhyo
14
8.2k
Microsoft 365 Copilot chat -tekoälypalvelun tietosuojaongelmat
hponka
0
700
「重なり」は迎える側がつくる ― 人もAIエージェントも歓迎するプロダクトエンジニアリング ―
go0517go
PRO
0
280
山手線を徒歩で一周してわかった、 位置情報アプリは「足」が最強のデバッガー
hinakko
0
110
ASTを使って影響範囲を特定する
nealle
0
160
20260912_スクフェス三河
kgnkhkr
0
290
Amazon S3 Tablesに全部任せてみた結果——コンパクション/スナップショット管理は本当に手放せるか
shigeruoda
1
470
Featured
See All Featured
AI in Enterprises - Java and Open Source to the Rescue
ivargrimstad
0
1.5k
エンジニアに許された特別な時間の終わり
watany
108
250k
How People are Using Generative and Agentic AI to Supercharge Their Products, Projects, Services and Value Streams Today
helenjbeal
1
310
SEO in 2025: How to Prepare for the Future of Search
ipullrank
3
3.8k
Ecommerce SEO: The Keys for Success Now & Beyond - #SERPConf2024
aleyda
1
2.1k
How to train your dragon (web standard)
notwaldorf
97
6.8k
The SEO Collaboration Effect
kristinabergwall1
1
550
Lessons Learnt from Crawling 1000+ Websites
charlesmeaden
PRO
1
1.6k
Navigating the Design Leadership Dip - Product Design Week Design Leaders+ Conference 2024
apolaine
2
420
What does AI have to do with Human Rights?
axbom
PRO
1
2.4k
[SF Ruby Conf 2025] Rails X
palkan
2
1.4k
Paper Plane (Part 1)
katiecoart
PRO
1
11k
Transcript
Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto: Machine Learning with Ruby # Eric
Weinstein # RubyConf 2016 # Cincinnati, Ohio # 10 November 2016
for Joshua
Part 0: Hello!
About Me eric_weinstein = { employer: 'Hulu', github: 'ericqweinstein', twitter:
'ericqweinstein', website: 'ericweinste.in' } 30% off with RUBYCONF30!
Agenda • What is machine learning? • What is supervised
learning? • What’s a neural network? • Machine learning with Ruby and the MNIST dataset
Part 1: Machine Learning
None
What’s machine learning?
In a word:
Generalization
What’s Supervised Learning? Classification or regression, generalizing from labeled data
to unlabeled data
Features && Labels • Raw pixel features (vectors of intensities)
• Digit (0..9)
Features && Labels • Raw pixel features (vectors of intensities)
• Digit (0..9)
Image credit: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.9/tutorials/mnist/ beginners/index.html
What’s a neural network?
Image credit: https://github.com/cdipaolo/goml/tree/master/perceptron
Image credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network
Part 2: The MNIST Dataset
Our Data • Images of handwritten digits, size-normalized and centered
• Training: 60,000 examples, test: 10,000 • http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/
Image credit: https://www.researchgate.net/
How’d We Do? • Correct: 9328 / 10_000 • Incorrect:
672 / 10_000 • Overall: 93.28% accuracy
Developing the App
Front End submit() { fetch('/submit', { method: 'POST', body: this.state.canvas.toDataURL('image/png')
}).then(response => { return response.json(); }).then(j => { this.setState({ prediction: j.prediction }); }); }
Front End render() { return( <div> <EditableCanvas canvas={this.state.canvas} ctx={this.state.ctx} ref='editableCanvas'
/> <Prediction number={this.state.prediction} /> <div> <Button onClick={this.submit} value='Submit' /> <Button onClick={this.clear} value='Clear' /> </div> </div> ); }
Back End train = RubyFann::TrainData.new(inputs: features, desired_outputs: labels) fann =
RubyFann::Standard.new(num_inputs: 576, hidden_neurons: [300], num_outputs: 10) fann.train_on_data(train, 1000, 10, 0.01)
STOP #demotime
Summary • Machine learning is generalization • Supervised learning is
labeled data -> unlabeled data • Neural networks are awesome • You can do all this with Ruby!
Takeaways (TL;DPA) • We can do machine learning with Ruby
• Contribute to tools like Ruby FANN (github.com/tangledpath/ruby-fann) and sciruby (http://sciruby.com/) • Check it out: http://ruby-mnist.herokuapp.com/ • PRs welcome! github.com/ericqweinstein/ruby- mnist
Thank You!
Questions? eric_weinstein = { employer: 'Hulu', github: 'ericqweinstein', twitter: 'ericqweinstein',
website: 'ericweinste.in' } 30% off with RUBYCONF30!