Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
About six years ago, Rob Walling and I started San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers Group to facilitate the needs of developers and IT professionals of the San Gabriel Valley area. We quickly joined INETA and had been a member ever since. I recently receive this recognition certificate from INETA on completion of our six years of membership. Time does fly! I…
SoCal codecamp Jan 28th - 29th is only couple of weeks away. Like always, there is a great list of sessions and speakers. I’ll be presenting on AppFabric; Being a technical editor for an upcoming book on AppFabric, it’s a great opportunity for me to test out the specific interests around this area. Following is the…
Venturing in the Privacy Tug-Of War: Opportunities in Controlling Personal Data Great event tomorrow morning @ Caltech. Details below. Saturday, January 14, 2012 at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Registration and Continental Breakfast: 8:00 a.m. Baxter Lecture Hall Program: 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall Networking: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Baxter Lecture http://entforum.caltech.edu/
Abstract: Essential multithreading guidance on using .NET parallel features. We will explore the what, why and especially HOW to use the newly available parallel and multithreaded features of the .NET framework. Whether you are writing server code, website code, Silverlight or desktop apps. About the Presenters: Nuri Halperin: Principal for +N Consulting Inc (Santa Monica, CA), Nuri…
Bayesian Artificial Intelligence, Second Edition by Kevin B. Korb and Ann E. Nicholson is among one of the very few books which explain the probabilistic graphical models and Bayesian belief networks in a balanced way; i.e. without making it a mathematical exercise in futility or by dumbing it down too much to make it a…
I am working with Hammad Rajjoub and with Rick Garibay as a technical editor on their new Windows Server App-Fabric book which is now available for pre-order. http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-windows-server-appfabric-cookbook/book The book is well organized and is written from a developer's point of view with and end to end hands-on discussion on app-fabric. It's goal is to…
There is an excellent series of video tutorials by Mathematical Monk described as "Videos about math, at the graduate level or upper-level undergraduate.". Unlike the usual classroom style videos, the tutorials are recorded as screencasts with the teacher trying to explain concepts by writing down examples and proving theorems while narrating the steps. Quite hands…
via Haskell's Wiki, Wadler's Law states that: In any language design, the total time spent discussing a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to the power of its position. 0. Semantics 1. Syntax 2. Lexical syntax 3. Lexical syntax of comments applies to enterprise architecture in general with the increasing order of actually quantified…
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Statistical Association Sponsored One Day Short Course Bayesian Inference, Prediction and Decision-Making II November 6, 2011 Lecturer Professor David Draper Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Baskin School of Engineering University of California, Santa Cruz Lecture notes:(PDF format) Lecture notes: part 1 (Bayesian model…