--- title: From Ancient Greeks to Modern Geeks - Basic Machine... description: Basic machine learning algorithms are explained through playful examples including Super Top Trumps, Pokémon data, and Guess Who. The talk covers fundamental... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/from-ancient-greeks-to-modern-geeks---basic-machine-learning-algorithms---simon-painter-sbrguq5ru twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: From Ancient Greeks to Modern Geeks - Basic Machine Learning Algorithms - Simon Painter | daily.dev og:description: Basic machine learning algorithms are explained through playful examples including Super Top Trumps, Pokémon data, and Guess Who. The talk covers fundamental... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-ancient-greeks-to-modern-geeks---basic-machine-learning-algorithms---simon-painter-sbrguq5ru og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SbrguQ5RU.png og:image:alt: From Ancient Greeks to Modern Geeks - Basic Machine Learning Algorithms - Simon Painter og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From Ancient Greeks to Modern Geeks - Basic Machine Learning Algorithms - Simon Painter **[NDC Conferences](https://daily.dev/sources/ndc)** · 45 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Basic machine learning algorithms are explained through playful examples including Super Top Trumps, Pokémon data, and Guess Who. The talk covers fundamental statistical concepts (mean, median, mode, standard deviation), correlation analysis, linear and logistic regression, Naive Bayes classification, k-nearest neighbors, and decision trees. Each algorithm is demonstrated with practical examples and mathematical formulas, emphasizing that machine learning is fundamentally statistics executed by computers. The presentation uses Excel for demonstrations and connects ancient Greek philosophical problems (like the Sorites paradox) to modern classification challenges. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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