Machine Learning

Meetings are at at 2169 Mission St. We're currently voting on when to have the next weekly meeting:

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Topics to Learn and Teach

• Linear Regression
• Linear Discriminants
• Decision Theory (Bayesian)
• Maximum Likelihood
• Neural Nets/Radial Basis Functions
• Bias/Variance Tradeoff, VC Dimension
• Clustering/PCA
• No-Free Lunch Theorem [1]
• Graphical Modeling
• Support Vector Machines
• k-Means Clustering
• Reinforcement Learning
• Bagging, Bootstrap, Jacknife [2]
• Generative Models: gaussian distribution, multinomial distributions, HMMs, Naive Bayes
• Metric spaces and what they mean
• Fundamentals of probabilities
• Information Theory: Entroy, Mutual Information, Gaussian Channels
• A basic decision tree builder, recursive and using entropy metrics
• Estimation of Misclassification [3]
• Classifier Combination [4]

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

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2008-12-17

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.

Possible topics

It would be nice to have a cache of topics we might want to discuss at future meetings; this is a placeholder to keep track of them. If you'd like to present on a Wednesday, but aren't sure what to do it on, consider researching one of these topics and presenting that.