Tag: machine learning
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Machine Learning to Play Super Mario
A fun video to watch. Very Impressive! The technique uses a genetic algorithm to training a neural network. A paper with more details can be found at, Evolving Neural Networks through Augmenting Topologies (NEAT)
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Model-based Machine Learning, Free Early Access Book
Model-based Machine Learning, Free Early Access Book
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Free Deep Learning Book
Yoshua Bengio, Ian Goodfellow and Aaron Courville are writing a deep learning book for MIT Press. The book is not yet complete, but the drafts of the chapters are all available online. The authors are also collecting comments about the chapters before the book goes to press. The book is broken into 3 sections: Math…
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Next.ML Machine Learning Conference
If you are based near San Francisco and interested in machine learning, the Next.ML conference is going on this weekend, January 17, 2015. The conference is a bunch of workshops covering the latest trends in: DEEP LEARNING PROBABILISTIC PROGRAMMING PARALLEL LEARNING JULIA OTHER MACHINE LEARNING TOPICS AND TOOLS The lineup of speakers is great, coming from…
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CMU Machine Learning Summer School Videos
It was a 2-week intensive course focused on machine learning for big data. Some of the top academics in machine learning gave presentations. Most of the videos are fairly long (around 1 hour each), but a whole lot of material is covered. All the CMU Machine Learning Summer School Videos are on Youtube. Here is…
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Huge List of Big Data and Machine Learning Technologies
Onur Akpolat has put together A curated list of awesome big data frameworks and resources. The list is very extensive and includes: NoSQL databases, machine learning libraries, frameworks, filesystems and more. On a similar note, Joseph Misiti has compiled a large list of machine learning specific resources. The list is titled, Awesome Machine Learning, and…
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Coursera Machine Learning Starts (Again) Today
The excellent and popular Machine Learning class from Coursera and Andrew Ng starts today. This is the 3rd or 4th run of the course.
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Machine Learning MOOC from EdX
EdX, a MOOC site, is offering Learning From Data. This is a course about machine learning offered by Caltech. The course started yesterday, so there is still time to get started. The course has 2 tracks: audit and certificate. It looks great. Good Luck.
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A Course in Machine Learning (free book)
Hal Daumé III, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, has placed the contents of his book online. The book is titled A Course in Machine Learning. Here is a small sampling of the chapters from A Course in Machine Learning: Decision Trees Linear Models Neural Networks Ensemble Methods Bayesian Learning
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Data Mining MOOC
The University of Waikato in New Zealand will be offering a free online course titled, Data Mining with Weka. Weka is a widely-used toolkit for data mining and machine learning. The University of Waikato developed the toolkit. Don’t wait too long to sign up, the course starts September 9, 2013. Here is a video of…
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Introduction to Apache Mahout Slides
Although Apache Mahout is not an absolute beginners topic in data science, this slide deck provides a nice overview of machine learning, and it provides some excellent links at the end. In case you are wondering, Mahout is a scalable machine learning library for very large data sets. The slides were prepared by Varad Meru.…