Machine Learning
Next Meeting
- Date: Wednesday, 4/21/2010 @ 8:00pm
- Where: 2169 Mission St.
- Topic: Linear Regression
- Presenter: Mike Schachter
- Description: A primer on linear regression, how it's used, why it's useful.
Topics to Learn and Teach
- Supervised Learning
- Linear Regression (Mike S volunteered to teach)
- Linear Discriminants
- Neural Nets/Radial Basis Functions
- Support Vector Machines
- Classifier Combination [1]
- A basic decision tree builder, recursive and using entropy metrics
- Unsupervised Learning
- Clustering/PCA
- k-Means Clustering
- Graphical Modeling
- Generative Models: gaussian distribution, multinomial distributions, HMMs, Naive Bayes
- Reinforcement Learning
- Temporal Difference Learning
- Math, Probability & Statistics
- Metric spaces and what they mean
- Fundamentals of probabilities
- Decision Theory (Bayesian)
- Maximum Likelihood
- Bias/Variance Tradeoff, VC Dimension
- Bagging, Bootstrap, Jacknife [2]
- Information Theory: Entropy, Mutual Information, Gaussian Channels
- Estimation of Misclassification [3]
- No-Free Lunch Theorem [4]
- Machine Learning SDK's
- Applications
- Collective Intelligence & Recommendation Engines
Possible Projects
Presentations and other Materials
- Awesome Machine Learning Applications -- A list of cool applications of ML
- Hands-on Machine Learning, a presentation jbm gave on 2009-01-07.
Notes from Meetings
Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2010-04-14 -- (re)Starting new Machine Learning Meetup!
(We've fallen off the notes bandwagon, sorry.)
Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-04-01 -- Finally moving on up: fully-connected backpropagation networks.
Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-03-25 -- We made perceptrons - added sigmoid, etc.
Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-03-18 -- We made perceptrons - linear function support!
Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-03-11 -- We made perceptrons!
Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-03-04 -- Josh gave a presentation on SVMs
(time is missing!)
Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-02-11 -- Josh gave a presentation on clustering, donuts!
Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-02-04 -- Free-form hang out night, punch and pie
Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-01-28 -- Praveen talked about Neural networks
Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2008-01-21 -- Jean gave a quick overview of machine learning stuff
Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-01-14 -- Ian gave a talk on k-Nearest Neighbor
Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2009-01-07 -- Josh did a quick intro to ML presentation