[Noisebridge-discuss] Machine Learning seminars?

Philip Neustrom philipn at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 00:01:28 UTC 2008


Excerpts from Josh Myer's message of Fri Dec 12 01:03:18 -0800 2008:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:31:25AM -0800, Josh Myer wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:04:26PM -0800, Ian wrote:
> > > Yah I can do it next wed. Do/should we prepare anything?
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't think anything's needed beyond thinking about that list of
> > questions.  Depending on how many people are there, we could wrap up
> > with show-and-tell, if people have 3 minute demos or something in
> > mind.
> 
> Ah, sorry about that, I wasn't clear.  There was a list of
> self-introduction questions I sent around in the email earlier.  With
> luck, we'll go around the room, each saying who we are, what we know,
> and what kinds of stuff we want to do.  From there, we can do some
> self-organziation.
> 
> The original email is reproduced at
>   https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Machine_Learning
> for the time being (that page will change next Wednesday, hopefully).
> 
> For convenience, here's the list again:
> 
> What is your name?                                                             

Philip Neustrom

>   
> What is your background in ML? (none/some/lots/I'm Judea Pearl)                

I'm a Haskell guy, kinda.  I can mostly read ML (at least based on what I saw in Purely Functional Data Structures).  I didn't know people still used ML.

>   
> What would you want to learn?                                                  

Anything interesting.  I'd like to see a neural net implemented and used for something -- I've only read about them from a theoretical standpoint.  I've read this stuff and find it interesting http://home.dei.polimi.it/matteucc/Clustering/tutorial_html/ but would like to work on some concrete implementations with people.

>   
> What would you want to create?                                                 
>   

Not entirely sure.

> What would you want to teach?                                                  

I don't know the subject, but I'd be happy to teach anything I learn along the way.

>   
> Do you have data?  Can you describe it in a paragraph?

No.  Yes.  Well, I'm not sure.

> How/when do you want to work with other people?
> 

Not sure.  I'm new to noisebridge.

> (And the new question is: do you have any swank, short demos?  Those
> would be an awesome way to wrap up the first meeting.)

No, but http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/ is inspiring (if accurate).
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