[Noisebridge-discuss] ML 11/28 @ 7:00pm: Sampling in Python and Ising Models

[Mike Schachter]

Hey everyone, I'm gonna help out with fixing up the Church
room tonight instead of giving the talk. I'm not sure what
programming language they're using to build the walls but
surely will pick it up quickly. Come out and help!

In general the past few months have been really busy and
I would have liked to give more workshops, but the ridiculously
hardcore machine learning class at UCB is ending soon and
I hope to pick things back up again by January.

 mike


On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Mike Schachter <mike at mindmech.com> wrote:
> Oh, also, the meetup is in the Church room.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Mike Schachter <mike at mindmech.com> wrote:
>> Hey there,
>>
>> On Monday evening at 7:00pm *sharp* (note the time!) I'd like
>> to present a short workshop on sampling from probability
>> distributions in Python. We'll cover the very basic stuff,
>> like generating random numbers and plotting their histograms
>> using matplotlib.
>>
>> Then we'll step it up a bit and talk about Gibb's sampling for
>> a fun thing called an Ising model:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ising_model
>>
>> We'll talk about how to sample from an Ising model and
>> potentially generate really cool correlated TV noise images.
>>
>> Also, the restricted boltzmann machine is a type of Ising
>> model that's used for deep belief nets, so learning how to
>> do Gibb's sampling for an Ising model would be quite
>> helpful for anyone interested in deep nets.
>>
>> Before you show up, please have the following Python
>> packages installed:
>>
>> Numpy
>> Scipy
>> NetworkX
>> Matplotlib
>>
>> See you then! Since the HTML/CSS/Javascript people are
>> going to meet up around 8pm, I'm hoping we can run through
>> things somewhat quickly and not interfere much with their stuff.
>>
>>  mike
>>
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