Posts tagged "Machine Learning"

Lately, my interest for machine learning and artificial intelligence has revived. When I was at university, I followed some courses and specialisations in this field, but then during my career I hardly ever used any of it. Back in those years, complex neural nets and genetic algorithms took days to build, mainly because we didn’t have the computing power for that. But nowadays, things have changed, and such models can relatively quickly be built using a commodity graphics card.

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The second day of Jfokus is just as action-packed as the first one. However, part of the action is me giving two talks. Both of them scheduled today, so a little less time for attending other sessions and blogging about them. I did attend some other sessions after lunch time, on which I’ll report below.

Introduction to Machine Learning

Directly after the lunch, James Ward gave an introduction to machine learning. He started with a very recognizable story about how humans (in casu his daughter) learn new facts about the world around them. Machine learning is in fact no different than human learning: building a model, trying something, seeing whether and how it changes reality and updating the model.

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