[ml] question on interests

[Glenn Wright]

I just did a presentation on record linkage for the California Division of
Communicable Disease Control.  It was fairly SAS-centric, since that's what
public health agencies generally use, but I could probably adapt it for R:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_linkage

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Mike Schachter <mike at mindmech.com> wrote:

> Glenn, Kai,
>
> My personal interests are in Neuroscience and my
> interest in ML started with generalized linear models,
> information theory, moved towards neural nets and deep
> nets, and is continuing to move towards generic graphical
> models.
>
> I also have some experience with dynamical systems
> models of actual brain cells. Kai, when you say "systems
> theory", what do you refer to? Like, cellular automata?
> Complexity? Dynamical systems? Stuff like markov decision
> processes?
>
> Because ML meetup content as been so sparse over the
> past year, I'd really encourage you to just take up ML time
> with anything you'd like to talk about. Anything related to
> complex systems, AI, machine learning, or statistics should
> be fair game, in my opinion, and I'd definitely like to hear
> more about what you're interested in. Same goes for everyone
> else.
>
>  mike
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Kai Chang <kai.salmon.chang at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Also, I think this topic is well outside the scope of Machine Learning.
> We
> > should find a different time to meet, and consider starting our own group
> if
> > there's enough interest.
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Kai Chang <kai.salmon.chang at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a strong interest in systems theory and would be interested in
> >> discussing these topics.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I have some interest in Economics and population biology / evolution,
> and
> >>> human language / communication, wrt systems of interacting autonomous
> >>> agents.
> >>>
> >>> There's a rather frustrating gap right now for me between the science
> and
> >>> computing in my own personal situation which I would greatly like to
> narrow.
> >>>
> >>> I'm sorry if it didn't come across.
> >>>
> >>> I'm not sure how you mean social networks if like in Facebook user
> >>> profiling which is a current app that companies are interested in a
> lot, or
> >>> if you mean more like classical social sciences about social processes
> (like
> >>> economic systems, or altruistic behaviour, or some topics like that).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Glenn Wright
> >>> <infinite.perplexity at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Can I just throw a question out there on interests?  A lot of the
> >>>> discussions on this list have been about artificial intelligence,
> image
> >>>> recognition, and stuff like that.  Is that typical of the interests of
> >>>> people on the ML group?  My data andstatistical interests lie more in
> the
> >>>> area of social sciences, health care, social networks, and stuff like
> that.
> >>>> Anyone else share similar interests?
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> -Glenn
> >>>>
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> ml mailing list
> >>>> ml at lists.noisebridge.net
> >>>> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/ml
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> ml mailing list
> >>> ml at lists.noisebridge.net
> >>> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/ml
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > ml mailing list
> > ml at lists.noisebridge.net
> > https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/ml
> >
> >
> _______________________________________________
> ml mailing list
> ml at lists.noisebridge.net
> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/ml
>



-- 
-Glenn
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.noisebridge.net/pipermail/ml/attachments/20110718/7c221848/attachment-0003.html>