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Data + Access = ?
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Its going to be really awesome, or horribly wrong. http://www.wired.com/2015/08/yelps-hospital-reviews-getting-real-health-care-data/
Insights on word2vec
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My group has been talking a lot about the intuition behind word2vec recently, and we read a short paper that investigated some of the reasons it might work so well. There is a NIPS paper on this with really nice…
Interview with MIT Corporation Chairman John Reed in MIT Faculty Newsletter
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From an interview with MIT Corporation Chairman John Reed: "FNL:One of the issues that has been of concern to a pretty good set of faculty is the plan to build commercial office buildings in the East Campus. We believe that…
Rank 1?
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I was shown a secret* list of the "Rank 1" conferences for AI/ML, and thought I would re-post them here. Do people agree? AAAI: American Association for AI National Conference ACL: Annual Meeting of the ACL (Association of Computational Linguistics)…
MLSS 2013 Videos!
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I was very luck to attend the Machine Learning Summer School this past summer in Tubingen, and they've just posted the videos from the sessions! Definitely worth checking out: http://mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de/speakers.html
NEMLD 2013
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The New England Machine Learning Day @ the Microsoft NERD Center was today. Below is the breakdown of the talks. Best technical talk? Ryan Adams. Funniest talk? Antonio Torralba. Sham Kakade (MSR) Learning latent structure in documents, social networks, and…
Motion amplification for the masses
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One of my first classes at MIT was the "Advances in Computer Vision" course. It was both well-taught and incredibly informative, likely because Dr. Freeman/Dr. Torralba/Michael Rubinstein were so knowledgeable about the content. There was an article recently on one…
PCA via SVD
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I was recently asked how singular value decompostion (SVD) could be used to perform principal component analysis (PCA). SVD is a general matrix decomposition method that can be used on any m × n matrix. (Compare this to eigenvalue decomposition,…
Gists - Even the name is cool
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In case you don't have an awesome officemate like mine who tells you about awesome things, GitHub has these cool things called Gists. Have you ever written a script to do a nasty task? Its not really a separate project...…