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
Machine Learning with Missing Labels Part 3: Experiments
In this series of posts we look at Transductive and SemiSupervised Learning–an old problem, a hard problem, and a fundamental problem Machine Learning. Unlike Deep Learning or large scale ML,
Machine Learning with Missing Labels Part 2: The UniverSVM
Ever wonder what Google DeepMind is up to? They just released a paper on Semi-Supervised learning with Deep Generative Models. What is Semi Supervised Learning (SSL)? In this
Machine Learning with Missing Labels: Transductive SVMs
SVMs are great for building text classifiers–if you have a set of very high quality, labeled documents. Frequently, we just don’t have enough labelled data!
Data Science Leadership
My talk from Berkeley is up on the new Calculation Consulting YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaao8GHAVcRtSZdpObC4_Kg
