One excellent place for a large number of machine learning, math etc related videos which I found to be useful:
http://videolectures.net/ On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:08 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I like your suggestion Grant. > > One reason for keeping the discussion on the mahout mailing list is because > once you get past theory and into implementation, I think a lot of the > discussion will deal with numerical issues that would be of interest to > mahout users/developers. > > > Just my two sense. > > J > > > Quoting Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]>: > > On a related note, I'd love to see/encourage more here on this list to >> discuss foundational aspects of machine learning (ML), such as Lin. >> Algebra, Stats, AI, etc. even if they aren't specifically Mahout related. >> Perhaps people could prefix the subject line with the topic, as in: >> [Linear Algebra] EigenValue Decomposition questions or [Stats] Bayes >> Theorem Question. Personally, I find the math, etc. to be fairly easy to >> follow when presented in the abstract, but sometimes struggle with what it >> means in the context of ML. >> >> Alternatively, I know some here are likely watching the Stanford CS 229 >> lectures, so those could be prefixed by [CS229-lec 5] or the Strang Lin. >> Algebra lectures or any of the other things on our >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Reference+Reading list >> >> Just a suggestion, what do others think? Does it encourage too much >> noise? Not useful? >> >> (We could create a new mailing list for these things, but I'd suggest we >> just start here first and if it gets too noisy, we can move it.) >> >> -Grant >> >> On Sep 5, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Lance Norskog wrote: >> >> The Hadoop lists seem to be all about the sysad aspects of Hadoop, while >>> Mahout users talk about algorithms a lot more. Are there other hangouts >>> oriented towards M/R or other large-scale algorithm discussion? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Lance >>> p.s. by 'sysad' I mean 'Google Envy'. >>> >>> >> >> >> > > >
