Tuesday, June 28, 2016

AdaBoost 5: the square root and the confidence value

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The question of what should be used as the confidence value for Bayesian computations is a thorny one. In my previous take on it I've u...
Friday, June 24, 2016

AdaBoost 4 or the square root returns

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I've had to return the library book on boosting. I've ordered my own copy, but on the last day I've paged through the more inter...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

AdaBoost 3 and Bayesian logic

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I think I've figured out a way to express the workings of AdaBoost in terms of the Bayesian processing, and I think it becomes simpler t...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Summary of Bayes by weight

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This is a copy of the post from my MSDN blog. If you've been reading this blog, you've already seen all the ideas described here. Bu...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

AdaBoost in simpler formulas 2

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I've been reading along the book on boosting, and I'm up to about 1/3 of it :-) I've finally realized an important thing about h...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

career advice 3

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As I've mentioned before, I've read the book "Friend & Foe" by Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer, and I went to se...

career advice 2

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For an example of a good career advice, I want to point to James Whittaker.  I've attended his classes "Career Superpowers" an...
Friday, April 8, 2016

career advice 1

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I went to see a book presentation by Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack on career advice for women in technology. And I think it's all bad advice. ...
Friday, March 18, 2016

AdaBoost in simpler formulas

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I'm reading a book about the "boosting": the machine learning idea that a better algorithm can be built by combining multiple ...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

Bayes 20: Testing

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I've already mentioned how to test a model but I want to go into it in more detail and collect all the items on this subject in one plac...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Bayes 19: model information, and enumerated events

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Sometimes the diagnosis depends on the features of the device being diagnosed. For example, you wouldn't want to diagnose the power ste...