Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me this question, I would have enough money to buy Trevor Hastie's The Elements of Statistical Learning Second Edition :). Anyways, here is a good explanation from Algorithm's of the intelligent web on what is so naïve about naïve Bayesian? "This is the calculation of…
ACO, a multidisciplinary PhD Program in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will be streaming live lectures by four prominent computer scientists. Live web streaming available at no charge. Theory Day Celebrating 50th Anniversary of Foundations of Computer Science and 20th Anniversary of the ACO Program at Georgia Tech Held in…
As a new year resolution for 2009, on Jeff's pursuance, we have started a Data Mining Reading Group here in Monrovia with friends where we review a research paper every week from a peer reviewed journal. The papers studied pertains to KDD, Machine Learning and Data Mining areas. So far we have covered four papers…
I wrote/scavenge this while Amanda Laucher's F# talk yesterday. It's a beauty, this terse F# syntactically & semantically. Having worked with scheme, experimenting with F# comes naturally however James Iry during a 1-1 discussions begs to differ that they are QUITE different. I have yet to independently verify the merit of this claim. open System.IOopen…
via Scott Hanselman F# Eye for the C# Guy
(Update: I finally got around to upload the conference posters in original higher resolution. This wasn't my usual cannon so sorry for the little grainy result but it should be kinda readable.) KDD 2008 was a great learning experience, providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking. It helps very much in getting…
Anomaly Pattern Detection in Categorical Datasets
Outlier Detection in High Dimensional Data
Day 3 started with Invited Talk of Dr. Michael Schwarz from Yahoo! Research on “Internet Advertising and Optimal Auction Design” who discussed Generalized English Auctions and Internet advertising, generalized second price options. (Details can be read on Akshay Java’s Social Media research blog here). It was an interesting talk pertaining to how almost every transaction…
Day 2 started with Trever Hastie’s talk on regularization paths and coordinate descent. It was great to see Dr. Hastie passionately speaking about the coordinate descent, logistic regression and fitting. The keynote’s topic was “Regularization Paths and Coordinate Descent” and following is a brief abstract from the talk. "In a statistical world faced with an…