I got the best holiday present ever from my students, thanks all! :'-) "Her energy and constant joking when delivering recitations helped me pay attention and understand hard concepts when I otherwise wouldn't have been able to focus. Marzyeh…
Uncategorized
Data + Access = ?
by mghassem •
Its going to be really awesome, or horribly wrong. http://www.wired.com/2015/08/yelps-hospital-reviews-getting-real-health-care-data/
Uncategorized
Insights on word2vec
by mghassem •
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…
Uncategorized
Interview with MIT Corporation Chairman John Reed in MIT Faculty Newsletter
by mghassem •
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…
Uncategorized
Rank 1?
by mghassem •
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)…
Uncategorized
MLSS 2013 Videos!
by mghassem •
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