Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2008-12-17
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These are the mostly-raw notes from the machine learning group meeting on 2008-12-17.
People attending: Bill, Jean, Jeremy, Josh, Matt, Mike, Praveen (and ruben made a cameo)
Here's what the people who attended were interested in:
matt
- interested in swarms and modeling multiple agents as applied to robots
- Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence (at Amazon)
- On Intelligence, the website
bill
- in the past work on optimization of functions (optimization theory), interested in just learning anything
mike
- interested in learning and absorbing new info
jeremy
- works at SRI, visting fellow in speech recognition and machine translation
- fun problem is document clustering, semantic relatedness in documents
- interested in unsupervised and semisupervised learning
- Cluto, a set of clustering tools with great visualization
- boosting was mentioned
josh
- works for mechanical zoo
- looking to collaborate with other people
- interested in creating a taxonomy/survey of machine learning techniques
- genetic neural networks google talk
- Weka homepage, a machine learning toolkit
- Polyworld: Using Evolution to Design Artificial Intelligence, a google techtalk about evolving neural network topologies via genetic algorithms
- The Next Generation of Neural Networks, a google techtalk on Restricted Boltzmann Machines, used for the NIST digit recognition task.
- An example of human-driven binary comparison of attributes
jean
- working at ucsf doing cognitive research
- interested in exploring/surveying different techniques (taxonomy)
- in particular with applications in eeg/fmri us
- Python MultiVariate Pattern Analysis, a python packages that implements a lot of Multivariate pattern analysis algorithms
- GNU Octave, the GNU implementation of matlab (good matlab replacement for PCA)
praveen
- currently @ linden lab
- worked with gene expresssion data mining, music preference and basket analysis,
- looking to collaborate on anything, wanting to get more hands on PCA experience
- perl script that will make million$
- Swarm Development Group Wiki,
- Self-organizing maps, a neural network technique he's worked with in the past
- Ape Genius (NOVA), source of some anecdotes we shared (chapter 6)
ruben110
- facial recognition anecdotes
Collaborative project kick off for year end 2008[edit]
- Create a survey/taxonomy list of ML techniques -- when setting out to do a particular machine learning task, what is the shortlist of techniques/tools/insights?