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Discussion on: Algorithm explained: Linear regression using gradient descent with PHP

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Dan Silcox

Nice job and well explained examples! As a PHP-by-day dev it’s nice to see it be used for something a bit different too :) I would imagine in PHP 8, even for more complex analysis it would be a great contender to try this sort of thing.

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Pascal Thormeier

Thank you very much for your positive feedback! I always try to explain things as understandable as I can 😃

I could very well imagine PHP catching up in data science topis, especially with PHP8. Natural language processing and machine learning are things PHP could absolutely do, it does have all the necessary tools.

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Dan Silcox

I’m thinking I might have to give it a go some time :)

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Pascal Thormeier

Is there a specific algorithm or method you're thinking about? Might cover that one in a post next 🙂

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Dan Silcox

To be honest I don’t really know! Not done much with machine learning or similar really, too maths heavy for me generally 😂 but willing to give it a go, was just going to basically replicate what you’ve done here initially for learning purposes, maybe with a different data source.