[Noisebridge-discuss] Machine Learning Wednesdays!

Ian ian at slumbrparty.com
Wed Jan 7 03:54:40 UTC 2009


i'll email out what i can/plan to cover tonight. sorry for the delay, but
been busy at work.
thanks,

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On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> Look forward to seeing y'all tomorrow night -- I'll let you know if I
> can whip up a presentation in time after I see your presentation.
>
> Since we have a good range of smart people who are somewhat versed,
> but not nessecarily experts in any ML topic, I'd guess a mutually
> supportive autodidactic strategy may work well in carrying on our
> groups.... So... Maybe we should revisit our talked about survey of ML
> techniques that several people were interested in and start making
> short talks based off of that?  Wouldn't have to be horribly
> in-depth/professional, since we aren't in an academic environment, but
> it may be good for group learning.
>
> Cheers,
> Praveen
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
> > (Ian beat me to the announcement/reminder by a day)
> >
> > Reminder: Tomorrow night, 8PM, at 83c, the first Wednesday Night
> > Machine Learning meetup will happen!
> >
> > I'll give a quick presentation on the current state of my "ML for
> > Outsiders" project, which aims to give non-ML people guidance and
> > tools to use machine learning solutions.  This becomes a very concrete
> > intro to specific bits of ML; I'm hoping others (Ian?) can pick up the
> > more abstract intro to ML slack.
> >
> > Ian, would you like to do a presentation on the 14th?  Let's
> > coordinate off-list on what you want to present after seeing what I've
> > got slated for tomorrow.  (Short version: I think another introduction
> > would be great)
> >
> > Also, any volunteers to present on January 21st or 28th?  If not, I'll
> > fill in by repeating my concrete ML presentation.  Over and over, if
> > need be!
> >
> > One of those two days could be the first theoretical group, as well.
> > Does anyone have a suggested first paper for a reaading group?
> >
> > Looking forward to seeing folks tomorrow night!
> > --
> > Josh Myer   650.248.3796
> >  josh at joshisanerd.com
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