[Noisebridge-discuss] Machine Learning meetup tonight: SVMs at 8!

[Josh Myer]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 06:06:42PM -0700, Christoph Maier wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:28 -0700, Josh Myer wrote:
> > Tonight, we'll be building Support Vector Machines (SVMs) with
> > Praveen.  SVMs are a workhorse of modern text processing work, and are
> > great for deciding whether an object is from class A or class B (apple
> > or orange, hot or not, etc).
> > 
> > Please come prepared: you'll want a laptop!  If you're on Windows, you
> > might want to install putty before coming in, so you can get a shared
> > shell host we'll use for people who don't have access to the software
> > we're using on their OS.
> > 
> > For those of you on Linux and OS X, please try installing libsvm on
> > your machine:
> > 
> >   http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/
> >
> > (We might also use mySVM,
> > http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/SOFTWARE/MYSVM/index.html but I'm not
> > entirely sure...)
> 
> Ahem.
> 

Which SVM package is that from?  libsvm builds just fine; I've never
used mySVM, it's just something Praveen mentioned that he was looking
at.  And, honestly, I've not built it yet, since he decided to use
libsvm for tonight at least.

Thanks!
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