Episode 8.66: Electricity and the consumption of power: an exercise in machine learning.

Fresh from the triumph of managing to get through, and actually speak to somebody from my electricity provider. I started thinking about the consumption of electricity by different appliances and particularly by those that sit quietly in the background consuming electricity without anyone really noticing what are called phantom appliances. And I then thought this could be a good test case for machine learning, so I started to find out if I could do it.