Another Holiday Blog: Feedback and Questions are very welcome. I have a client who is using Naive Bayes pretty successfully, and the subject has come up
Why Deep Learning Works II: the Renormalization Group
Deep Learning is amazing. But why is Deep Learning so successful? Is Deep Learning just old-school Neural Networks on modern hardware? Is it just that
Why does Deep Learning work?
Why does Deep Learning work? This is the big question on everyone’s mind these days. C’mon we all know the answer already: “the long-term behavior
Convex Relaxations of Transductive Learning
Why are SVMs interesting? It is just a better way to do Logistic Regression? Is it the Kernel Trick? And does this even matter now
The Bitcoin Crash and How Nature Works
Last week, On Jan 14, 2015 Bitcoin dropped below $200 (USD) 2 years of bitcoin 2103-2015 Moreover, several Bitcoin exchanges have shut down due to hacks
SVM+ / LUPI: Learning Using Privileged Information
Recently Facebook hired Vapnik, the father of the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and the Vapnik-Chrevoniks Statistical Learning Theory. Lesser known, Vapnik has also pioneered methods of
