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by georgeek 9y ago
This is more of a graduate-level text though. It's as close as you can currently get to Michael Jordan's forthcoming book on graphical models and ML.
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by georgeek 9y ago
An amazing text on this topic is Martin Wainwright/Michael Jordan's Graphical Models, Exponential Families, and Variational Inference: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig/Papers/WaiJor08_F...
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by georgeek 10y ago
The barrier of entry s that Google and Facebook can throw much more data at a problem (even design future iterations of their products so that they gather the necessary big chunks). They can get away with better trained, more robust and gen
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by georgeek 10y ago
The reason why the class from 2014 doesn't have a lot of the material is because a big part of it is based on Prof Jordan's future book on Statistical Learning Theory. Another great study of his: http://www.nowpublishe
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by georgeek 11y ago
They might be pushing users away from the Linux/Mac apps towads an online version of skype. Which is actually the easiest way to use their service, when you absolutely have to.
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by georgeek 11y ago
There are two issues here, firstly some dramatic overfitting of the model, and secondly that all-too-familiar garbage in, garbage out fact, which is even more relevant when dealing with data.
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by georgeek 11y ago
I donate to them, as do many people who believe that they are doing good work overall.
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by georgeek 11y ago
Well, he's kind of a dead card anyways, so why not use him through all the Congressional hearings. Replace him with someone else when the blizzard is over.
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by georgeek 11y ago
When you remove the huge chunk of metal in front of the cabin that is the engine, you might expect better performance in a front impact test. The structure of the car doesn't have to circumvent the engine, gearbox and a lot of other co
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by georgeek 11y ago
One quality specialized publisher is Now Publishers : http://www.nowpublishers.com/ Quality is managed by having leading academics have a say in the editorial decisions. Their conditions are somehow better than more establi
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by georgeek 11y ago
A good reason why such petitions are important is that the (sluggish) EU Commission competition authority needs to see such representative citizen efforts in order to look into the lack of browser choice in iOS.