The chances are that you have heard of linear regression before. With the buzz around machine learning, perhaps it seems surprising ... for the famous MNIST dataset and then build a spam classifier ...

Linear regression is an excellent place to start when using machine learning to predict numbers. Combined with relevant features, it’s a slam dunk. Josh Lewis is the VP, Product at Alpine Data.

They are not using it today in Google but ... Google will be making spam detection and search quality more machine learning based in the near future.