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One question that definitely has plagued me for a while is that of evaluation schemes of recommender systems... On multiple occasions I have designed recommender systems that give …

Pretty interesting stuff.. Personally I wasn't a big fan of recommenders that rely on explicit interaction with the end users simply because it may be too much work for them. Hunch…

Just a quick reminder that the registrations are now open. Will be great to bump into some of you there..

I plan to attend the Machine Learning Summer School in Canberra this year... http://mlss10.rsise.anu.edu.au/ Hope to bump into some of you there :)

For what it's worth, I think it's important to start with interesting problems. My first interaction with ML was an implementation of Naive Baye's for classifying spam, borrowing m…

+1 for nltk... its very very neat!

Second Michael's opinion... Some really good python libraries out there besides NumPy and SciPy. Pandas comes to mind http://code.google.com/p/pandas/ Pretty good for data analysis…

I don't how accurate it is to say they are not of use any more... agreed SVM's seem to be particularly good. But as far as I know, NN's seem to pretty well for handling data like s…

well so here is what I am doing instead... I get only a notion of the likes of the user, and since "everything else" is too huge a domain to consider as dislike, I try and rank the…

but the whole idea is... every one has their own notion of likes and dislikes.... am i missing something here?

Hi All, I have been working on a recommender engine for a while now and have now stumbled across the cold start problem. The problem here is that whatever data I collect is only an…

well there are loads of lectures on videolectures.net definitely worth a view, in particular those from machine learning summer school(primarily because audio quality tends to be p…

There is something pretty similar... You might want to lookup on euler problems in python.. http://pyeuler.wikidot.com/ really cool stuff....

Looks pretty interesting... however a small UI suggestion.... it seems to occupy a fair amount of the available screen space. How about something like a "bitcrumb powered searchbox…

nice post... while I do agree with most of the content on your post...could you elaborate a little more on the approach you guys are planning to take in particular? Also, one thing…

Good pointers, yes Andrew Ng seems really amazing that way, I had actually seen his videos too, forgot to post that link.. Thanks guys for these suggestions.

i did try the libsvm implementation in weka.. but it wasn't available for all datasets (my guess being it works only for binary classification), ended up using the SMO algorithm wh…

Hey, So for some one who is starting out with Support Vector Machines, there is just loads of material out there which does not make immediate sense. I found the following resource…

great resource!! what is it about NZ and machine learning :) (weka comes from there, for those who are not aware) Anyway, PyML ( http://pyml.sourceforge.net/ ) and biopython ( http…

great replies guys... some very good pointers, especially ventureloop was a great find for me. thanks for the inputs again. probably another area for others interested in the field…

I am currently pursuing my masters in CS with an inclination in machine learning from a reasonably well reputed university. With a reasonable background in AI, I wish to take up a …

The good news is you are at the right place :) You should probably pick up courses on machine learning as will I. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2009/cs7641_spring/ kind of tel…