A followup piece to my intro to ML reductions. Covers one-against-all, weighted one-against-all, the Costing algorithm, and the one classifier trick.
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Machine Learning Reductions & Mother Algorithms, Part I: An Introduction
Part I in a series on reducing complex machine learning problems to simpler sub-problems.
Disclaimer: I wrote this piece.
This morning, I published a piece online learning, i.e. making machines learn in close to real time.
Introducing one of the best hacks in machine learning: the hashing trick
Disclaimer: I wrote this piece.
A history of machine learning
A nice timeline visualisation by Google.
The female code-breakers who were left out of history books
And thanks to papers recently declassified, it is now known that during World War Two Elizebeth helped to smash a network of Nazi spies trying to foment fascist revolutions in South America – their ultimate goal being an attack on the US. Many of these spies were arrested as a direct consequence of her and her team’s work at the US Coastguard. However, for decades J Edgar Hoover and the FBI claimed more or less all the credit for this achievement. Elizebeth, sworn to secrecy and uninterested in publicity, stayed quiet.