Anyone working in "Machine Learning"?

[sasguru]

That's the one. It was courserras first course. It's instructor is the guy that set up courserra. Not sure when the next one runs, it seems like there is a lull in courserra courses provided over the summer, perhaps as the university professors are on summer research or what have you.

You get to learn octave. Haven't seen many jobs requiring octave. But I think the course will teach the principles which you could then apply in another language such as python

meanwhile, if you are programming oriented, you could read this book, the title seems to be a bit of a misnomer, it's about ML algorithms implemented in Python.:
Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications: Amazon.co.uk: Toby Segaran: Books
I'm not that interested in the pure programming angle, so its not for me.
There's an equivalent book for R which sadly doesn't seem as good.

This one looks good thinks its also online
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bayesian-Rea...chine+learning

[doodab]

meanwhile, if you are programming oriented, you could read this book, the title seems to be a bit of a misnomer, it's about ML algorithms implemented in Python.:
Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications: Amazon.co.uk: Toby Segaran: Books
I'm not that interested in the pure programming angle, so its not for me.
There's an equivalent book for R which sadly doesn't seem as good.

This one looks good thinks its also online
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bayesian-Rea...chine+learning

I'd rather be eaten alive by a python than learn it TBH. I have been meaning to get into octave or scilab for a while though, so I might give that a go.

Edit: online version of the Barber book is here, http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Bar...ook/090310.pdf

[sasguru]

Edit: online version of the Barber book is here, http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Bar...ook/090310.pdf

ta.

[sasguru]

I'd rather be eaten alive by a python than learn it TBH

Just out of interest why don't you like Python?

[proggy]

The only machine learning you lot are doing is learning how to work the fryer at McDonalds.

[sasguru]

The only machine learning you lot are doing is learning how to work the fryer at McDonalds.

Break the habit of a lifetime and try someything contructive for a change, why not?

[doodab]

Just out of interest why don't you like Python?

The Zen of Python thing grates, even more so when you discover that whitespace is a fundamental part of the syntax, which appears to violate most of the aforementioned rules.