This month John Myles White will be laying down the knowledge with a talk on "Regularization in Machine Learning for Solving Multidimensional Problems." You might know John as a regular NYCML attendee, Princeton graduate student, coauthor of the forthcoming O'Reilly book "Machine Learning for Hackers", blogger at <a... [read more]

This month John Myles White will be laying down the knowledge with a talk on "Regularization in Machine Learning for Solving Multidimensional Problems." You might know John as a regular NYCML attendee, Princeton graduate student, coauthor of the forthcoming O'Reilly book "Machine Learning for Hackers", blogger at <a href="http://dataists.com">http://dataists.com</a>, and all around awesome guy. He'll be providing more details and links to references early next week. For now here's a one line description:
We'll cover basic regularization regression, tools for inducing sparsity and applications to text analysis.