Stealing Baseball Signs with a Phone (Machine Learning)

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a fun, semi-technical intro to machine learning that holds kids' attention.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Mark Rober

Topic

machine learning for sign stealing

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• Mark Rober has many great and some good science and engineering videos that my kids love: [LINK] He get's my vote for the current best communicator of science, on par at times with Carl Sagan. This video explains neural nets/machine learning and had my kids …

• I'm not sure if the complexity of the codes is significantly higher in the pro teams, but I found this video on baseball code decoding pretty fun. [VIDEO] Combined with this, it certainly seems like there's potential for a fully automated pipeline

• Here's a fun (semi) technical video on using machine learning for sign stealing: [VIDEO] I wonder if the signs employed by Major League teams are as simple as the ones dissected above?