Network Programming in .NET

Me: Azure , what is 1 + 1 ?

Azure: It’s 1.999999999992212

Me: No it’s not.

Azure: Come on, I’m almost right!

I’ve just been playing with the Azure Machine Learning Studio, to see if it could be accurate enough for practical applications. The most simple example I could think of was a model where it was given 1,000 examples of one number, followed by a second number which was one greater.

1,2
2,3
3,4

You can see the model in the Cortana Intellegence Gallery here
https://gallery.cortanaintelligence.com//Experiment/Plus-one-webservice-1

Interestingly, the result is not perfect as would be expected, but it goes wrong in a way that only a machine would think is close to the correct answer.