Echen: fixing links -- to give external links a name, use a space (not a pipe)

2008-12-26T22:33:32Z

fixing links -- to give external links a name, use a space (not a pipe)

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	'''matt'''		'''matt'''
	* interested in swarms and modeling multiple agents as applied to robots		* interested in swarms and modeling multiple agents as applied to robots
	* [http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/0805074562\|Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence (at Amazon)]		* [http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/0805074562 Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence (at Amazon)]
	* [http://www.onintelligence.org/\|\|On Intelligence, the website]		* [http://www.onintelligence.org/ On Intelligence, the website]

	'''bill'''		'''bill'''
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	* fun problem is document clustering, semantic relatedness in documents		* fun problem is document clustering, semantic relatedness in documents
	* interested in unsupervised and semisupervised learning		* interested in unsupervised and semisupervised learning
	* [http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/views/cluto/\|Cluto, a set of clustering tools with great visualization]		* [http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/views/cluto/ Cluto, a set of clustering tools with great visualization]
	* boosting was mentioned		* boosting was mentioned

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	* interested in creating a taxonomy/survey of machine learning techniques		* interested in creating a taxonomy/survey of machine learning techniques
	* genetic neural networks google talk		* genetic neural networks google talk
	* [http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/\|Weka homepage], a machine learning toolkit		* [http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/ Weka homepage], a machine learning toolkit
	* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m97_kL4ox0\|Polyworld: Using Evolution to Design Artificial Intelligence], a google techtalk about evolving neural network topologies via genetic algorithms		* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m97_kL4ox0 Polyworld: Using Evolution to Design Artificial Intelligence], a google techtalk about evolving neural network topologies via genetic algorithms
	* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M\|The Next Generation of Neural Networks], a google techtalk on Restricted Boltzmann Machines, used for the NIST digit recognition task.		* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M The Next Generation of Neural Networks], a google techtalk on Restricted Boltzmann Machines, used for the NIST digit recognition task.
	* [http://kittenwars.com\|An example of human-driven binary comparison of attributes]		* [http://kittenwars.com An example of human-driven binary comparison of attributes]

	'''jean'''		'''jean'''
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	* interested in exploring/surveying different techniques (taxonomy)		* interested in exploring/surveying different techniques (taxonomy)
	* in particular with applications in eeg/fmri us		* in particular with applications in eeg/fmri us
	* [http://www.pymvpa.org/\|Python MultiVariate Pattern Analysis], a python packages that implements a lot of Multivariate pattern analysis algorithms		* [http://www.pymvpa.org/ Python MultiVariate Pattern Analysis], a python packages that implements a lot of Multivariate pattern analysis algorithms
	* [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/\|GNU Octave], the GNU implementation of matlab (good matlab replacement for PCA)		* [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ GNU Octave], the GNU implementation of matlab (good matlab replacement for PCA)

	'''praveen'''		'''praveen'''
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	* looking to collaborate on anything, wanting to get more hands on PCA experience		* looking to collaborate on anything, wanting to get more hands on PCA experience
	* perl script that will make million$		* perl script that will make million$
	* [http://www.swarm.org/\|Swarm Development Group Wiki],		* [http://www.swarm.org/ Swarm Development Group Wiki],
	* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map\|Self-organizing maps], a neural network technique he's worked with in the past		* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map Self-organizing maps], a neural network technique he's worked with in the past
	* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/apegenius/program.html\|Ape Genius (NOVA)], source of some anecdotes we shared (chapter 6)		* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/apegenius/program.html Ape Genius (NOVA)], source of some anecdotes we shared (chapter 6)

	'''ruben110'''		'''ruben110'''

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2008-12-23T04:19:21Z

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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
* [http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/0805074562|Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence (at Amazon)]
* [http://www.onintelligence.org/||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
* [http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/views/cluto/|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
* [http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/|Weka homepage], a machine learning toolkit
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m97_kL4ox0|Polyworld: Using Evolution to Design Artificial Intelligence], a google techtalk about evolving neural network topologies via genetic algorithms
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M|The Next Generation of Neural Networks], a google techtalk on Restricted Boltzmann Machines, used for the NIST digit recognition task.
* [http://kittenwars.com|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
* [http://www.pymvpa.org/|Python MultiVariate Pattern Analysis], a python packages that implements a lot of Multivariate pattern analysis algorithms
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/|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$
* [http://www.swarm.org/|Swarm Development Group Wiki],
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map|Self-organizing maps], a neural network technique he's worked with in the past
* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/apegenius/program.html|Ape Genius (NOVA)], source of some anecdotes we shared (chapter 6)

'''ruben110'''
* facial recognition anecdotes

=== Collaborative project kick off for year end 2008 ===
* 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?

Machine Learning Meetup Notes: 2008-12-17 - Revision history

Echen: fixing links -- to give external links a name, use a space (not a pipe)

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