If Hollywood Made Movies About Machine Learning Algorithms

A lighthearted take on the kind of movie Hollywood would produce if it took on machine learning algorithms.



Support Vector Machine

Due to climate change, the era of man is coming to an end. A group of scientists discovers a wormhole which allows to search for a new home.

Joseph A. Cooper, a NASA pilot, ends up in a five-dimensional world which shows his entire life. He must find the right moment in time, where he will be able to pass invaluable information to his daughter.


SVM Movie

Genre: Supervised learning

User ratings: 3/5 (medium)

User review: I like movies where problems are described in many dimensions

Naive Bayes

Mr Bayes is a kind policeman in Rhode Island. His life gets turned upside down, when his fiance gives birth to a black child.

At first, Bayes can’t believe that the child is his, but when it is confirmed by the nurses, he starts to think it really is possible.


Naive Bayes Movie

Genre: Supervised learning

User ratings: 3/5 (medium)

User review: This scene was hilarious:

Bayes: It’s not my child!

Jane: Yes, he is!

Bayes: Well, this is 50/50 situation. I’am not fully convinced

Jane: Nurses!?

Nurse 1: He is your child!

Nurse 2: Agreed

Bates: So, its 75% true.. I have son!

He was so naive..

Neural Network

Rosen Blatt, a freshman, joins The Perceptron, a school choir for women, which participates in an a capella competition. The choir girls inject some energy into their repertoire and start to compete with the male rivals.

Surprisingly, they discover that girl with the most weight, Fat Amy, has the biggest influence on the quality of their singing.

The girls master the repertoire through arduous training, and changing their team members (called Inputs) in order to achieve the best result.


Neural Network Movie

Genre: Unsupervised learning

User ratings: 5/5 (hard)

User review: This is how our brain works.

Bio: Dawid Andrzejewski is Social Media Technology Director at Isobar Poland.

Original. Reposted with permission.

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