Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
As statistician Dennis Lindley famously said, "Inside every nonBayesian there is a Bayesian struggling to get out"; it would be safe to interpolate that Sharon McGrayne's interesting tale of trials and triumph of the Bayes Rule, or more accurately Bayes-Laplace-Price rule, is an excellent historical journey, which may help get your Bayesian out of the…
For most researchers in the ever growing fields of probabilistic graphical models, belief networks, causal influence and probabilistic inference, ACM Turing award winner Dr. Judea Pearl and his seminary papers on causality are well-known and acknowledged. Representation and determination of Causality, the relationship between an event (the cause) and a second event (the effect), where…
If you are scouring for an exploratory text in probabilistic reasoning, basic graph concepts, belief networks, graphical models, statistics for machine learning, learning inference, naïve Bayes, Markov models and machine learning concepts, look no further. Dr. Barber has done a praiseworthy job in describing key concepts in probabilistic modeling and probabilistic aspects of machine learning.…
Being an avid science reader, I have been following Dr. Hawking’s work for over a decade and enjoyed his earlier books including Universe in a nutshell, Theory of Everything and a Brief history of time. I started reading his latest work, Grand Design with great expectations and enjoyed Hawking’s typical style of building up the explanations,…
Having listened to Marty Abbot and Michael Fisher methodically dissect scalability bottlenecks and hash out fault isolation in large scale enterprise systems, I decided to pick up "50 Principles for Scaling websites" with high hopes and wasn't disappointed. These fifty rules, some of them seemingly obvious and others with specific details serve as a…
The terms Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control are colloquially used interchangeably and numerous times, the distinction is lost. In one of the DI must read books, Dependency Injection in .NET by Mark Seeman, the particularity of these entities are explained quite well. Following is the excerpt. The term Inversion of Control (IoC) originally meant any sort of programming style where an…
Even though I am still waiting for my official printed dead-tree copy, a co-worker Frank Liao just showed me Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook on his safari online account. This just proves what Hanselman always predicted, it's cheaper, portable and faster to move electrons than molecules 🙂 Read my previous post for more information about the…
Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric provides caching capabilities to facilitate high-speed access, scale, and high availability to application data. Also, for composite applications, AppFabric makes it easier to build and manage services built using Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation. It also provides amazing monitoring capabilities for your existing WCF services. After dabbling early with…
Time and again as you work through a technology, delta books become increasingly important i.e. the technological texts which are concrete, concise, and build upon earlier foundations of your learning without starting all-over again from the square one. Professional ASP.NET qualify as one of those books, which not only fit the above definition, but…
If you are trying to decipher web 2.0 related terms, acronyms and buzzwords, you are definitely not alone. It is hard to quantify what exactly a web 2.0 design entails; “I know it when I see it” does not help explaining the characteristic features of modern web architecture including design patterns, core models, reference architectures…