Category Archives: Machine Learning

More data usually beats better algorithms?

By Siddhartha Reddy | April 14, 2008

Anand Rajaraman, who teaches a class on  Machine Learning at Stanford, recently wrote an interesting blog post: More data usually beats better algorithms, he claimed. The post makes for an interesting read and so do the plethora of comments on it. He made a follow-up post, which is equally interesting.
I do agree with [...]

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Machine Learning: Classification

By Siddhartha Reddy | March 27, 2008

Machine Learning is a branch of Computer Science that is concerned with designing systems that can learn from the provided input. Usually the systems are designed to use this learned knowledge to better process similar input in the future. Machine learning can be considered as a subfield of Artificial Intelligence.
A very familiar example is the [...]

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Fun with Google Sets

By Siddhartha Reddy | March 21, 2008

Google Sets is a real fun experiment from the Google Labs. It basically allows you to “automatically create sets of items from a few examples.” So you can enter “Sachin Tendulkar”, “Rahul Dravid” and “Sourav Ganguly,” and, be presented with a much larger set of the players of the Indian Cricket Team. Or enter “Athens”, [...]

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