[Noisebridge-discuss] Hidden Markov Model Workshop! 8/18 @ 7:30pm

[Kelly]

ADDED!

HMMs are fun stuff. I will try to stop by.

-Kelly

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 13:07, Mike Schachter <mike at mindmech.com> wrote:
> HEY!
>
> Are you riding out the cold SF "summer" shivering in a dumpster
> filled with biomedical waste, guilt writhing up and down your spine?
> Guilt from not knowing enough about... hidden markov models?!?
>
> Well suffer no more, the machine learning group wants to
> help you!
>
> Hidden Markov Models are in widespread use for speech recognition
> and Bioinformatics. They're somewhat compact models that can be
> used to predict sequences. On Wednesday, August 18th, 7:30pm,
> in the back classroom, we're coming together to give a workshop on
> HMMs, including:
>
>  - The basic math behind Markov Processes and HMMs
>  - Speech Recognition using HMMs
>  - HMMs using R
>  - HMMs in bioinformatics
>
> Stop on by! No money is required, just your brain and sensory organs
> and possibly a laptop if you want to follow along with some of the R
> examples. Donations to Noisebridge are suggested. See you there!
>
> Love,
>
>   mike
>
> P.S. Could some generous admin add this to the Google calendar?
>
>
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