Eye of the Infra — What is a Batch and an Epoch?

Author(s): Sai Kaushik Ponnekanti Originally published on Towards AI. Firstly, In the previous article, we founded a startup whose mission is to stop people from losing their life savings to fraudulent emails.. One thing we left out is that we forgot to name the startup. I think I understand why, we are engineers at heart and want to get our hands dirty as quickly as possible and as such started thinking about the product. Now, some customers are expressing interest and we have to create a brand. We came up with a quirky, funny and imaginative name “Phish & Chips” (as our startup identifies spam emails. Really cool, right!). Let’s take a moment here and congratulate ourselves on taking the first step to creating the brand. Now let’s get back to the topic at hand. We started off the company with a dataset consisting of 100,000 emails which have already been pre-classified as “Spam” and “Not Spam”. Now in the previous article, we were talking about what training is Give the model some data → let it make a prediction → measure how wrong it is → adjust the weights → repeat. But we didn’t ask the question. “How do we give the 100,000 emails we have to the model?” First, when you think …

≈