machineman44

Why AWS and Microsoft? Why not Amazon and Microsoft?

I know right... Everywhere I turn, I hear people preaching about "blockchain technology" and it's ability to "increase privacy" ... I die a little inside every time...

Haha, I thought jdonaldson was making a joke :P

Hi Stephanie. Sorry if my comment sounded harsh and nit picky. I actually passed it off to a fellow software engineer at work and he found it really insightful and useful for the work he is doing. Not everybody makes the effort to share their knowledge and I really appreciate you doing so. Have a good day :)

Honestly, this is a good run through of resources and examples of different machine learning algorithms/techniques be it supervised, unsupervised, or model validation... however, the wording used and mistakes made when describing supervised learning or Naive Bayes shows that this is an attempt at taking an O'Rielly book and trying to summarize it in a short article... while making errors... How did it get so many points on ycombinator?

I have only seen a maximum entropy model as part of the supervised realm where it is a discriminative model. In other words, given some labeled data, we can draw a decision boundary. Maximum entropy in this context is almost certainly associated with the information theory definition, where the entropy of a collection of data based on the distribution of classes is measured. High entropy if each class is equally probable. Lower Entropy otherwise.

I agree. Most supervised learning classifiers are derived based on the independent and identically distributed assumption for each (x,y) pair.

To be more specific about the Naive Bayes assumption, the features of a data point are conditionally independent instead of simply independent. This means that given a certain label, these set of features are independent.