[Noisebridge-discuss] ML Wednesday: 7PM real time tonight!

[Praveen Sinha]

I will try to make it still though -- I might just wind up being 30 minutes
late...

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee at gmail.com> wrote:

> And unfortunately, with some work and other things coming up today, I don't
> know if I will be able to make it in time for anything reasonable for this
> quick one hour session :( :(  I will be there on time and starting the full
> set for the next week.
>
> However!  I have gotten a couple of items for self study this week for all
> you ML'ers, so it should still be a good session, and anyone with a laptop
> can take the lead.
>
> Self Study 1)  Talk about types of data that you find interesting and want
> to be working on, either by yourself or in a group for the rest of the
> spring/summer, and take notes for me to build into the next couple of
> sessions.
>
> Self Study 2)  Support Vector Machines are essentially moveable quadratic
> optimizers.  In order to make more accesible some of the theory intensive
> stuff we'll have to start off with, please check this page and go through
> the animations project on the wall/as a group if possible:
>
> http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/chinneck/po.html
>      ^^ gentle introduction to optimization
>
> This will give people who haven't been drenched in math a good solid
> foundation not just for machine learning, but talking about all sorts of
> problems.  I'll be going over some of this stuff as well as quadratic
> programming and kernel tricks next wednesday.
>
> Cheers!
> Praveen
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> To accomodate a guest speaker at 8PM, ML Wednesday is meeting early
>> tonight!  We'll be meeting at 7PM normal person time (not NB time), at
>> 83c.
>>
>> This is a soft kickoff for Praveen's set of workshops on SVMs, which
>> should be as much (if not more) fun as our neural network session
>> were.  Come on out and hang out with us for a quick session tonight!
>> If we get into things, we might decamp to Muddy's at 8.
>>
>> Also, we're still looking for datasets to use in our training, so if
>> you have suggestions, let us know.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to seeing folks a little (okay, a lot) earlier
>> than usual, and a big thank-you to Praveen for stepping up to present
>> for the next couple of weeks!
>> --
>> Josh Myer   650.248.3796
>>  josh at joshisanerd.com
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