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Machine learning has gained plenty of momentum recently, and with Google’s announcement of TensorFlow Lite, it’s never been easier to start with incorporating machine learning directly in your mobile apps. Mobile machine learning has become a highly sought after skill, and after being introduced to TensorFlow in Google’s annual keynote, I realized that it could solve real world problems, like analyzing complex CT scans to detect tumors or reading handwritten letters to the visually impaired. With that, I decided to jump in.

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Following up on my earlier blogs on running edge models in Python, this fifth blog in the series of Training and running Tensorflow models will explore how to run a TensorFlow Lite image classification model in Python.

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In gradient boosting, predictions are made from an ensemble of weak learners. Unlike a random forest that creates a decision tree for each sample, in gradient boosting, trees are created one after the other. Previous trees in the model are not altered.

Results from the previous tree are used to improve the next one. In this piece, we’ll take a closer look at a gradient boosting library called CatBoost.

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In most Android devices, sensors are a vital component—we use them in many applications to perform different tasks and to improve user experiences.

They are the devices way of interacting with the outsider world, and using them we can measure motion, orientation, device position, and various environmental conditions.

In this short article, we’ll explore the different sensors we have at our disposal and how they work. Then, we’ll move to sensor fusion and see how the Android SDK classes simplify interacting with the array of device sensors.

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Several weeks ago, we all watched as Redditors took on the hedge funds and the price of Gamestop’s stock (GME) rocketed up to $470 at its peak before coming back down to Earth.

During the craze, billions of dollars exchanged hands in a historic short squeeze that left millions of people asking — “do you have diamond hands?” The typical Internet forum lingo suddenly became part of our vernacular (for better or worse), as Redditors banded together to hold out for a moon shot.

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Nothing frustrates me more than filling out a long form on my phone. The keyboard is too small and questions always feel redundant. Streamlining UX with helpful suggestions and auto-completion is a great way to reduce friction, increase conversion, and make your app feel more fluid.

Amazon realized this early, resulting in their infamous “1-click” patent. Google reports that over 12% of all emails sent are composed via their single click Smart Reply option. In this tutorial, we’ll use Apple’s Create ML tool to train our own machine learning model to anticipate a user’s intentions, automatically complete a form, and save them a click in the process.

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By now, you are probably familiar with the concept of “smart reply” features. In many messaging applications nowadays, you’ll see a list of suggested replies when you receive a message. And this makes it easier to respond without thinking about what you’re going to say—especially when the reply is obvious.

You can easily add Smart Reply to your mobile apps. like chat-app, Reviews, with the help of Google’s API, via its on-device machine learning framework ML Kit, which allows you to easily add this capability to your projects.

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It’s really important to work and develop your code in a trusted and isolated environment—an environment that’s easy to set up and lets you start working on your project right away.

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