Requesting pros/cons of Python vs Matlab from people that are well...
Yes, I know Matlab isn't free but besides that. I myself have a ton of experience in Matlab so I'm really looking for the other side from a people that know MatlabThis isn't just about language but...
View ArticleTop Ten Topics in Machine Learning
I have a background in mathematics, but have little exposure to machine learning. I would like to teach myself some of the basics. What would you say are the top ten topics a student, say at the...
View ArticleWhat is the best/most efficient type of programming language for quant...
I am interested in teaching myself machine learning techniques and how they apply to world I work in of finance. However, I know programming is involved and have been learning Python recently. Just...
View ArticleAwesome paper on learning to recognize images of cats without any cat images...
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View ArticleQuestion regarding neural networks for denoising
I'm very to new to machine learning in general and am reading Marsland's textbook. He briefly mentions that neural networks can be used for denoising an image. From my understanding, the network is...
View ArticleUsing ML to assign conference abstracts to referees
Hi, all. (As a quick caveat, I'm brand new to ML, so explain like I'm 5.)I help to organize a pretty large conference every summer at my university. Part of that is taking in 200+ 1,000-word abstracts...
View ArticleTextbook on sale!
Hey guys, I don't know if you really allow this sort of thing, but as a person who is always trying to not borrow textbooks from others when they are particularly good, I just found out that the ML...
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Darpa Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves
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View ArticleJust a friendly PSA about using WEKA to edit ARFF files
I had a simple problem to solve: rearrange the order of columns in my arff files. Despite being simple, I wasted one too many hours struggling to find a way to use WEKA to edit my arff files. The built...
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pyfeast - a feature selection tool for python
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View Article[Question] Can you recommend an ML project that could utilize the GPU ?
Hey guys, as part of my final project for a GPU programming course i need to implement a project that uses GPU parallelism solve a problem. I was thinking of learning some ML by implementing a (simple)...
View ArticleAdvice on ML given SQL data?
Background: Math-y with R/MATLAB experience; some work using Python/SQLAlchemy/Rails/d3 but I'm really an analyst, notsomuch a developer or DB guy (but always learning!). Looking at a DB that's...
View ArticlePredictive Analytics Healthcare Vendors?
Anyone know any good PA vendors with solid models in the healthcare space, specifically around readmission risk stratification?I'm working on a project and could use some help.TIA submitted by...
View ArticleNonparametric Regression on the results of a Linear Regression
So I was recently talking to this guy who told me that he regressed some price data on some independent variables before taking those predictions and regressing the price data onto the predictions of...
View ArticleAbusing hash kernels for wildly unprincipled machine learning
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View ArticleI have a cluster all to me, what must I experiment it with?
Okay, the professor who used to research with the cluster left the university some months back. The lab was closed since then. I asked the head of department, and he said okay the lab is yours. What...
View ArticleMultitudes of effect/no-effect multifactor determinations on the cheap...
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View ArticleA Spectral Approach to Ghost Detection: ". In this paper we survey our...
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Find a separating hyperplane with this One Weird Trick...
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View ArticleHow to use a t-test to compare a binary classification to pure random data?
So I am new to this and I am not quite sure how to do this. I could be over thinking it.I have a binary classification where all the data is labelled as Win or Lose. THere is an equal amount of both. I...
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