Cover of On Intelligence
I am rapidly falling behind on machine learning technology. Numenta is a company that is working on Hierarchical Temporal Memory, or HTM. I first learned about HTMs in the book On Intelligence by Numenta co-founder Jeff Hawkins (who was also a major player at a little company called Palm). [...]
A New Level of Usability and Integration for Advanced Grammar Checking, Spell Checking
WhiteSmoke announces the immediate availability of an upgrade to its desktop English writing software. WhiteSmoke 2009 is the leading software solution for the correction and enhancement of English grammar, spelling, and writing style. The latest upgrade follows the announcement of new server-side features [...]
When I talk about data mining and machine learning, the word “drama” is not often used. But it seems that there is a bit of drama going on with the final countdown to the award of the Netflix Prize. Check the leader board to see that BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos has been knocked off [...]
Pulled from Hutch.net:
The Machine Learning Forum
Dear Fellow Machine Learners,
For the past year or so I have become increasingly frustrated with the peer review system in our field. I constantly get asked to review papers in which I have no interest. At the same time, as an action editor in JMLR, I constantly have to harass [...]
DARPA pushing a new field called the Machine Reading Program (MRP) that combines natural language processing and understanding, knowledge-based systems, knowledge acquisition, and machine learning. The goal is to create an automated “Reading System” that serves as a bridge
between knowledge contained in natural texts and the formal reasoning systems that need such knowledge. [...]
Netflix prize triggered http://www.netflixprize.com//leaderboard
Saturday, June 27, 2009 8:03 PM
Netflix prize triggered http://www.netflixprize.com//leaderboard
A team on Netflix’s algorithms prize breaks the 10% barrier: http://www.netflixprize.com/leaderboard
Saturday, June 27, 2009 8:02 PM
A team on Netflix’s algorithms prize breaks the 10% barrier: http://www.netflixprize.com/leaderboard
Entered Netflix Prize challenge. 30 days to beat 10.05% improvement over Netflix’s own Cinematch algorithm. http://netflixprize.com/.
Saturday, June 27, 2009 [...]
NewsScope Archive from Reuters really doesn’t have the imposing name that it probably should – it certainly doesn’t seem to fit the mission statement of the tool: giving users the ability to construct news based trading strategies. Reuters is one of the few organizations that has the archived databases of textual information matched to the [...]
This is an note to self – keep an eye on Powerset – a self described “search engine that breaks the confines of keyword search.” Still in “stealth mode” and spending money – I am guessing. The oft used mantra of natural lanuage search and the phrase Google killer used in the same [...]
Look, I don’t know anything about basketball (something about dribbling or something or other?) and the only March Madness that I am aware of is the snow we keep getting, even though it is spring already. I graduated from GMU back in 1993, so that makes good ol’ GMU my alma mater. So, [...]
The first blog entry is titled Making a difference, which I guess is exactly what Google would expect of “lots of world class Ph.D.s (and a few non-Ph.D.s)“. It is interesting that they made a distinction between engineers (“who do the real work”) and Ph.D.s. Golly, the blog was launched almost a month [...]
