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Relearning Machine Learning

It would be a bit of an understatement to say that machine learning is hot right now. Both my bachelors degree and my PhD were (broadly) in Artificial Intelligence, so once upon a time it was a subject I was reasonably up to date on. I decided it was time to get back up to date.

Thinking About Languages for Deep Learning

Thinking About Languages for Deep Learning

Right now Python [https://www.python.org] feels like the language of deep learning and data science in general. That’s not really surprising. With the right libraries (probably NumPy [https://www.numpy.org], Pandas [https://pandas.pydata.org] and MatPlotLib [https://matplotlib.org]) it can come close to matching

Lapped by Fast.ai

Relearning Machine Learning

Lapped by Fast.ai

Well. This is embarrassing. At the beginning of last year I was working my way through fast.ai’s excellent Deep Learning for Coders [http://course18.fast.ai] course. Then, around the time I was due to start the last module, my life got very busy and complicated. To be

Relearning Machine Learning

A Swing and a Miss: Trying to Reduce English Uncertainty in IMDB Review Classification

My mostly unsuccessful attempt to use the part of speech tagging to reduce ambiguity and improve performance in IMDB review classification with RNNs.

Relearning Machine Learning

Kaggle’s Yelp Restaurant Photo Classification Competition, Fast.ai Style: Part 2

Hacks, improvements and graphs. Lots of graphs. Part 2 of my attempt to grapple with the Kaggle Yelp Restaurant Photo Classification competition, using the techniques (and code library) from fast.ai’s “Practical Deep Learning for Coders” course.

Relearning Machine Learning

Kaggle’s Yelp Restaurant Photo Classification Competition, Fast.ai Style: Part 1

Part 1 of my attempt to grapple with the Kaggle Yelp Restaurant Photo Classification competition, using the techniques (and code library) from fast.ai’s “Practical Deep Learning for Coders” course.

Relearning Machine Learning

Fast.ai via iPad with Paperspace and Juno App

Getting started with the fast.ai "Deep Learning for Coders" MOOC. Setting Paperspace to work as a compute backend, and using the iPad app Juno as the frontend.

Relearning Machine Learning

Some Notes on Coursera’s Andrew Ng Deep Learning Speciality

Notes on the Coursera Speciality which acts as a follow up to the Machine Learning course I discussed previously.

Relearning Machine Learning

Some Notes on the “Andrew Ng” Coursera Machine Learning Course

Some notes on the MOOC which is more or less the standard text for basic machine learning. Comparisons are made with Udacity's Introduction to Machine Learning.