blog.muehlburger.at » Machine Learning http://blog.muehlburger.at Software Engineering by Herbert Mühlburger Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:00:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Machine Learning is awesome http://blog.muehlburger.at/2011/11/16/machine-learning-is-awesome/ http://blog.muehlburger.at/2011/11/16/machine-learning-is-awesome/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:04:20 +0000 Herbert Mühlburger http://blog.muehlburger.at/?p=1404 Machine Learning Class

Machine Learning has always been a topic that attracted my interest. Currently I attend the “Machine Learning” class (@ml_class) offered by Prof. Andrew Ng from Stanford University. The class is awesome. The video lectures are made of small chunks explaining every topic in detail. A lot of topics were already covered:

  • Linear regression with one variable
  • Linear regression with multiple variable
  • One-vs-all Classification
  • Regularization
  • Backpropagation Algorithm
  • Neural Networks
  • Practical advise for applying learning algorithms
  • How to develop and debug learning algorithms
  • Feature and model design, setting up experiments

Other interesting topics are following. In parallel to the lectures there are homework programming exercises that have to be solved. To date programming assignments covering topics as:

  • Linear regression
  • Logistic regression
  • Multi-class classification and Neural Networks
  • Neural network learning
  • Regularized linear regression and bias-variance

In order to solve the exercises you have to understand the contents and have some programming experience in GNU Octave. It is also important to have basic understanding of Linear Algebra.

Machine Learning Contests

In order to apply machine learning on real world problems you can enter a machine learning contest. There are various contests out there, some of which are

I will keep you updated.

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]]> http://blog.muehlburger.at/2011/11/16/machine-learning-is-awesome/feed/ 0 [video] – The Filter Bubble – From Human to Algorithmic Gatekeepers http://blog.muehlburger.at/2011/05/06/video-the-filter-bubble-from-human-to-algorithmic-gatekeepers/ http://blog.muehlburger.at/2011/05/06/video-the-filter-bubble-from-human-to-algorithmic-gatekeepers/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 17:36:10 +0000 Herbert Mühlburger http://blog.muehlburger.at/?p=1328 Web personalization and personalized recommendations are recently gaining more and more interest. Companies like Amazon, Google, Netflix, The New York Times, Facebook, Twitter, … already personalize their products in different ways. If you take Google’s search results as an example. Have you ever noticed that a friend of you gets different search results as you do for the same search query? If you never have noticed just try it out it’s really worth noting. Another example are Amazon’s product recommendations which are for example based on your purchases, your product ratings and so on.

Eli Pariser explains in the following TED Talk how “human information filters” get substituted by algorithmic ones, which means how recommendation engines filter information for you. Have a look at the video is is really worth watching:

Do you know other examples of web personalization or recommendations engines? Please leave me a comment at the end of this post.

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]]> http://blog.muehlburger.at/2011/05/06/video-the-filter-bubble-from-human-to-algorithmic-gatekeepers/feed/ 0 [video] – How is Hadoop used at Twitter? http://blog.muehlburger.at/2010/09/10/video-how-is-hadoop-used-at-twitter/ http://blog.muehlburger.at/2010/09/10/video-how-is-hadoop-used-at-twitter/#comments Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:02:24 +0000 Herbert Mühlburger http://blog.muehlburger.at/?p=1111
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In the following video Dmitriy Ryaboy, a Twitter Analytics Engineer and a former Cloudera Intern, explains how Twitter uses Hadoop and Pig. Enjoy the video and have a good weekend!

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]]> http://blog.muehlburger.at/2010/09/10/video-how-is-hadoop-used-at-twitter/feed/ 0 Video by Google on K-Means Clustering http://blog.muehlburger.at/2010/08/04/video-by-google-on-k-means-clustering/ http://blog.muehlburger.at/2010/08/04/video-by-google-on-k-means-clustering/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:43:43 +0000 Herbert Mühlburger http://blog.muehlburger.at/?p=1066 Recently I was searching for good ressources explaining the k-means clustering algorithm. I found the following video from Google Research on YouTube. It explains the K-Means clustering algorithm quite well.

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