Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2010-04-14

- Met up with Mike, David, Tom, Lex

-Tom: would be interested in giving class on interesting topics in stats

-David: interested in stats, R, can give info on R

-Looking to come up with interesting group projects

-Came up with a list of topics to potentially discuss:

• Linear Regression
• Linear Discriminants
• Decision Theory (Bayesian)
• Maximum Likelihood
• Neural Nets/Radial Basis Functions
• Bias/Variance Tradeoff, VC Dimension
• Clustering/PCA
• Graphical Modeling
• Support Vector Machines
• k-Means Clustering
• Reinforcement Learning
• Bagging (Bootstrapping), Jacknifing
• Generative Models: gaussian distribution, multinomial distributions, HMMs, Naive Bayes