Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
I was doing a Bayesian network assignment for school, minding my own business, when I encountered the following typo (screenshot below). This eventually pushed me over the edge to rant out this blog post you are reading now. Well, I agree that typos happen, we all know about HTTP 1.1 standard specs "Referer" and how that happened, but there…
From Microsoft Research website... SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder, developed by Microsoft Research and available for download , is designed to help computer users cope with precisely such scenarios. SNARF, a complement to e-mail programs such as Outlook, filters and sorts e-mail based on the type of message and the user’s history with…
On channel 9, Andy Edmonds and Erik Selberg, talked to Frank about about MSN Search, relevance, neural network, black box, data mining, level of trust in today's search world etc. It's pretty interesting, I enjoyed listening it. They also discussed evolving search as a platform and what challenges big 3 (Google, Yahoo, MSN) are facing while…
Doctors (not the real kind) are in fashion. I've always been impressed by the success story of Adam Kolawa, Parasoft co-founder and CEO, who “came to the United States from Poland to pursue his Ph.D. In 1987, he and a group of fellow graduate students founded Parasoft to create value-added products that could significantly improve the…
Dear Fellow Computer Science Enthusiasts 10/9 was a giant leap for R&D in CS; a completely autonomous land vehicle completed a 131.6 miles track and won $2 mil in DARPA challenge. I’ve been following this competition closely for two years now and disappointed that MIT / CMU’s Red team couldn't make it. Alan Turing was…
Einstein (enthusiastically): Energy = mass times the square of the speed of the light Mileva Maric: Would you like me to check your mathematics? An excellent program by PBS Nova.
Caltech's research output is amazing! Several blocks down from our residence, this comparatively very small university (900 undergrad, 1200 grad) has hosted best research scholars in nation and home of finest inventions planet has seen. The list of its Alumni and visiting faculty includes Albert Einstein and Charles Francis Richter, the creator of Richter scale. Sticking to Chemistry,…
News from Caltech... Planetary Scientists Discover Tenth Planet PASADENA, Calif.--A planet larger than Pluto has been discovered in the outlying regions of the solar system with the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory, California Institute of Technology planetary scientist Mike Brown announced today. The planet is a typical member of the Kuiper belt, but its…