A Thousand Foot View of Machine Learning

Re:A Thousand Foot View of Machine Learning by rwolf on Thursday December 31, 2009 @01:18PM (#1024682)

Those are two great examples. I've heard of KNN, but I will certainly be looking into KSVM!

My personal recommendation is the Naive Bayesian Classifier:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_Bayes_classifier

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

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Re:A Thousand Foot View of Machine Learning by pgbovine on Thursday December 31, 2009 @01:39PM (#1024717)

peter norvig has a great chapter in the O'Reilly book "Beautiful Data" about using naive bayes + a ton of data mined from the web to do fairly good natural language processing. one of his recent themes has been "naive algorithms + lots of training data can often beat sophisticated algorithms + little data"

i dunno if his article is online somewhere, though.

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Re:A Thousand Foot View of Machine Learning by rwolf on Thursday December 31, 2009 @01:51PM (#1024746)

The O'Reilly book "Collective Intelligence" is another nice resource for Naive Bayes. I picked it up because of a sidebar describing an improvement I didn't find online (something about a Chi distribution...I'm in a different town than my bookshelf today).

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Re:A Thousand Foot View of Machine Learning by seiji on Thursday December 31, 2009 @01:49PM (#1024738)

Doesn't look like the chapter is free, but the code and data is hiding out at http://norvig.com/ngrams/

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