Re-read Fred Brooks “The Mythical Man Month” over vacation. Book remains insightful about computer science and project management. Read more…
We give a simple explanation of the interrelated machine learning techniques called kernel methods and support vector machines. We hope to characterize and de-mystify some of the properties of these methods. To do this we work some examples and draw a few analogies. The familiar no matter how wonderful is not perceived as mystical. Read more…
Categories: Expository Writing, Mathematics, Opinion, Pragmatic Machine Learning, Statistics, Tutorials Tags: Kernel Methods, Logistic Regression, Machine Learning, Mathematical Bedside Reading, Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machines
