Writing ‘Python Machine Learning’
It’s been about time. I am happy to announce that “Python Machine Learning” was finally released today! Sure, I could just send an email around to all the…
Machine Learning, python
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Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation
Backpropagation is the key algorithm that makes training deep models computationally tractable. For modern neural networks, it can make training with gradient descent as much as ten million times faster, relative to a naive implementation. That’s the …
Machine Learning, python
Python, Machine Learning, and Language Wars
This has really been quite a journey for me lately. And regarding the frequently asked question “Why did you choose Python for Machine Learning?” I guess it…
Framework, Machine Learning & Statistics, programming
Datumbox Machine Learning Framework 0.6.0 Released
The new version of Datumbox Machine Learning Framework has been released! Download it now from Github or Maven Central Repository. What is new? The main focus of version 0.6.0 is to extend the Framework to handle Large Data, improve the code architectu…
Machine Learning, python
Single-Layer Neural Networks and Gradient Descent
This article offers a brief glimpse of the history and basic concepts of machine learning. We will take a look at the first algorithmically described neural…
Machine Learning, python
Principal Component Analysis
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a simple yet popular and useful linear transformation technique that is used in numerous applications, such as stock…
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Visualizing Representations: Deep Learning and Human Beings
In a previous post, we explored techniques for visualizing high-dimensional data. Trying to visualize high dimensional data is, by itself, very interesting, but my real goal is something else. I think these techniques form a set of basic building bloc…
Machine Learning, python, scikit-learn
Implementing a Weighted Majority Rule Ensemble Classifier
Here, I want to present a simple and conservative approach of implementing a weighted majority rule ensemble classifier in scikit-learn that yielded…
Machine Learning, python
MusicMood
In this article, I want to share my experience with a recent data mining project which probably was one of my most favorite hobby projects so far. It’s all…
Machine Learning, python
Turn Your Twitter Timeline into a Word Cloud
Last week, I posted some visualizations in context of Happy Rock Song data mining project, and some people were curious about how I created the word clouds…