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Tag Archives: machine learning
I may be succumbing to the dark side
Remember when the Apple iPad came out? Remember how completely let down you were about what it was, and its intended function? I do. I was in my machine learning 10-601 class in the spring of this past year, eagerly … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Hardware, Holidays, Real Life, Technology
Tagged apachecon, apple, grant ingersoll, handwriting, i feel dirty for considering this thing, iannotate, imaxipad, ipad, iphone, ipod, lectures, macbook, macbook pro, machine learning, maxipad, note taker hd, note taking, organization, penultimate, pogo sketch stylus, research papers
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Debugging and you!
I just completed an assignment for my machine learning class (which, in case you haven’t picked up from my lack of posting frequency, is a little challenging), for which I had a write a program that implements the concept of … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Programming
Tagged adaboost, and seriously don't weight your friends, boosting, debugging, don't try this at home kids, it's like that dumb facebook app top friends, machine learning, pretty much the worst analogy ever, Programming, python, seriously just bring in a few friends
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Open Source Development
A few weeks ago, the 2010 rendition of Google’s Summer of Code came to an end, and with it, the official (summer-wise, at least) end of my spectral clustering project for Apache Mahout. I wasn’t 100% successful, as you can … Continue reading
Posted in GSoC, Internet, Programming, Real Life
Tagged apache, apache mahout, communities, everything in moderation including moderation, fraternity, google summer of code, GSoC, highly intelligent and highly opinionated, isabel drost, machine learning, mahout, open source, spectral clustering, there are bad apples everywhere, too much of anything is a bad thing, tr0ll, trolling
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Sum of small numbers
This is an interesting concept to me, as its applicability is endless. Remember your high school / college calculus courses? Remember Taylor/Maclaurin/power series? Remember the whole thing about summing an infinite series of numbers together, and posing the question of … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School
Tagged can't stand glenn beck, chomp chomp chomp, evolution, fallacy, fallacy of composition, fallacy of division, heuristic, infinite sums, lolcat, machine learning, maclaurin series, master's thesis, rule of thumb, similar things behave similarly, small change in input, small change in output, taylor series, testable hypothesis
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“We need to have empathy”
It may not be well-advertised, but if asked directly I make no secret of the fact that one of the most interesting things in the world to me is humanity. We fall everywhere on every single spectrum, both disgustingly predictable … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Articles, Graduate School, Real Life
Tagged carnegie mellon, debate, fraternity, gaussian distribution, georgia tech, gray areas define us, gridlock, intellectual, logic, machine learning, passion, phd, Politics, president, psychology today, statistics, university of virginia
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Not quite according to plan
I’ve spent the better part of the last few hours reinstalling my Ubuntu virtual machine from scratch after completely botching my previous install’s configuration. How? I was attempting to get Python 2.5 up and running with a few custom packages, … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Blogging, Graduate School, i ken make living plz, Internet, lolcat, Mathematics, Programming, Technology
Tagged 20000 visits, cronjob, first-order markov model, hidden markov model, hmm, humor, love me some probabilistic spam, machine learning, probability, public timeline, sampling, twitter, twitterbot, ubuntu kicked my ass, we're men in tights
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I had to tell an MBA to GTFO
Summer’s over, fall is here, and everything that entails is already in full swing. I won’t go into detail, but I will leave you with this bloopers clip I put together in the days after I left Raleigh but before … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, extremeblue, lolcat, movies, The Lady
Tagged !astroturfing, astrophysics, Blogging, bloopers, carnegie mellon, cms, cmu, computational modeling, css, extremeblue, gotta love academia, html, IBM, machine learning, quantum physics, slif, stars and galaxies, thesis research, web application development
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Theatre of Consciousness 
Code! Jam!
Don’t look now, but the 2009 rendition of Google Codejam is very close to concluding its qualification round! The competition opened yesterday at 7pm eastern. I worked with my partner in C++ crime who goes by the moniker of Danimal … Continue reading →