Taking Stealing To The Next Level: Baseball And Machine Learning

Baseball signals are purposely confusing to keep them a secret.  Attempting to decode your opponents’ signals is part of the game. As it turns out, machine learning is pretty good at figuring them out. 

Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer on the Curiosity Rover, put together a good video showing its efficiency. It’s an interesting application and a pretty good introduction to machine learning. It did the rounds in my office, and we liked it. 

via Mark Rober


So, what do you think, should we make this legal in the MLB?

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