How many people would be interested in machine learning reading group meetup following this course http://www.seas.harvard.edu/courses/cs281/. We can meet weekly and read the book "Kevin Murphy, Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective, MIT Press.". We can also do the assignment from the course. This is a tough course with heavy mathematics. The prerequisites are:
1) any intro to machine learning
2) statistical inference berger and cassella
3) r programming (the book suggest matlab code, but we can easily translate it to r)
P.S.: reading this book won't guarantee you a data science job. please see it as learning something complex for fun.
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