书名:机器学习数据训练(影印版)
国内出版社:东南大学出版社
出版时间:2024年03月
页数:329
书号:978-1492094524
原版书书名:Training Data for Machine Learning
原版书出版商:O'Reilly Media
Anthony Sarkis
Anthony Sarkis是Diffgram人工智能数据训练软件的首席工程师,也是Diffgram公司的首席技术官和创始人。在此之前,他是Skidmore, Owings & Merrill公司的研发软件工程师,并与他人共同创办了DriveCarma.ca。
The animals on the cover of Training Data for Machine Learning are black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). While they are actually a type of ground squirrel, they received the name prairie dog because of the habitats they live in and because the sound of their warning calls are similar to a dog’s bark.
Black-tailed prairie dogs are small rodents that weigh between 2 and 3 pounds and grow between 14 and 17 inches long. They have mostly tan fur that is lighter on their bellies and their namesake black tail tip. They have short, round ears, and eyes that are relatively large in comparison to the size of their bodies. Their feet have long claws, which are ideal for digging burrows into the ground.
True to their name, black-tailed prairie dogs live in a variety of grasslands and prairie in the Great Plains of North America. Their habitat usually consists of flat, dry, sparsely vegetated land, such as short grass prairie, mixed-grass prairie, sagebrush, and desert grasslands. Their expansive range is east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada to the border of Mexico.
Black-tailed prairie dogs may not be considered endangered, but they are a keystone species. They impact the diversity of vegetation, vertebrates, and invertebrates because of their foraging habits and presence as potential prey. It has been shown that grasslands inhabited by them have a higher degree of biodiversity than grasslands not inhabited by them. Prior to a large amount of habitat destruction, they used to be the most abundant species of prairie dog in North America. Many of the animals on O’Reilly covers are endangered; all of them are important to the world.