I'll be there. Altho I don't really feel like presenting anything (too much going on lately),<br>I can say what I am reading and direct people to the resources for that. (Tom Mitchell's book and courses).<br><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Mike Schachter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@mindmech.com">mike@mindmech.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
One more topic I forgot about: Ridge Regression/LASSO<br>
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Mike Schachter <<a href="mailto:mike@mindmech.com">mike@mindmech.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Just to brief anyone new to the ML stuff - we have meetups every<br>
> week, 7:30pm in the Church classroom. Every few weeks we have<br>
> a presentation/workshop on an ML topic. Although we haven't been<br>
> keeping track lately, we've had meetups about the following topics:<br>
><br>
> Generalized Linear Models<br>
> Neural Networks<br>
> Independent Components Analysis<br>
> Semi-supervised Classification<br>
> Agent-based Learning<br>
> Random Forests<br>
> Self Organized Maps<br>
> Random Walks and the Page Rank Algorithm<br>
> k-Means Clustering/Expectation Maximization for Mixture Models<br>
> Hidden Markov Models/Speech Recognition<br>
> Bias/Variance Tradeoff<br>
> Information Retrieval (search)<br>
> Inverse Problems/Meta-heuristics<br>
><br>
> The group is stochastic and has a somewhat seasonal component,<br>
> things seem to be slower in the summertime. Later this summer I'm<br>
> going to try and get all the slides made public for these talks and list<br>
> them on the wiki. Don't be afraid to repeat any of the already-mentioned<br>
> topics, the stochasticity of the group implies that you'll always have<br>
> interested people!<br>
><br>
> We've also worked on a few different data mining competitions, including:<br>
><br>
> Last year's KDD cup challenge for educational data<br>
> Kaggle's HIV Genomics Competition<br>
> Kaggle's Social Network Competition<br>
><br>
> My personal opinion is to move the group in a direction that balances<br>
> workshops for teaching and projects. Anybody who has a personal project<br>
> they want people to work on is encouraged to share with the group and<br>
> present it, and feel free to use ML meetup time to do so.<br>
><br>
> Have fun! Hopefully see you all next week,<br>
><br>
> mike<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Glenn Wright<br>
> <<a href="mailto:infinite.perplexity@gmail.com">infinite.perplexity@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I've never been before, but I'm interested and I'm going to be at Noisebridge tonight.<br>
>><br>
>> Sent from my iPhone<br>
>><br>
>> On Jun 15, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Mike Schachter <<a href="mailto:mike@mindmech.com">mike@mindmech.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Not that I know of! I won't be in, but next week there's a<br>
>>> workshop on SVMs in R.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I strongly suggest to anyone and everyone - show up and make<br>
>>> something happen tonight!<br>
>>><br>
>>> mike<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Cathy Wu <<a href="mailto:cathywu@mit.edu">cathywu@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> hey all,<br>
>>>> is there anything planned for tonight?<br>
>>>> thanks!<br>
>>>> cathy (new to nb)<br>
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