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Finishing up the Machine Learning Module
Well, the Machine Learning exam was this morning… another 5:30 am start to get to Manchester in plenty of time. My Top Tip for distance learning today has to be: if you have to attend classes, labs, exams – you know, stuff that you can’t really afford to miss, aim to be there an hour [...]
In: Computer Science, MSc
Top 5 Cool Machine Learning Links
I’ve seen so much awesome stuff in my forays into Machine Learning as part of the course I’m doing, I thought I’d present for your entertainment and information my top 5 machine learning resources. No, come back – some of this stuff is actually quite cool, I promise! Here goes, in no particular order: How [...]
In: Computer Science, Machine Learning, MSc
Machine Learning – Day 5
So that’s the end of the taught course in Machine Learning, finishing up learning about Markov Chains and Hidden Markov Models. Yep, those are just links to the Wikipedia articles, and it’s quite possible that if you clicked on them and you’re anything like me, the crazy-looking maths stuff at the other end made the [...]
In: Computer Science, Machine Learning, MSc
Machine Learning – Day 3
Getting through the coursework was a challenge – my computers have never worked so hard. The last section involved performing a computation over a data set that took a few seconds per run to exhaustively search for the optimal settings for two parameters in the computation’s algorithm. Searching over 25 possible settings doesn’t sound like [...]
In: Computer Science, Machine Learning, MSc
Semi-Structured Data and the Web – Day 5.5
Two weeks later, on deadline day… I think I defeated the XQuery assignment. It took the best part of a week, guessing at around 18 hours, but my 485 lines of code handle everything I can think of that was within the spec of the assignment. It was loads of fun handling transformations from various [...]
In: Computer Science, MSc · Tagged with: xquery, xslt