Machine Learning, etc

We have a couple of internship openings for someone to train deep neural nets find extract interesting things in StreetView imagery. The ide...

We are looking for a summer intern to apply Deep Learning techniques to the problem of reading text in the wild. More details here

I came across this post post where the author created a font by averaging together all fonts on his machine. I thought it would be cool to ...

There's a number of accepted papers whose camera-ready versions have been posted already. Here are the ones I found interesting. I'l...

Here's a cool tool I stumbled across reading John Cook's blog -- Shape Catcher looks up Unicode value from a drawing of a char...

This is a dataset of scans of 1000 public domain books that was released to the public at ICDAR 2007. At the time there was no public ser...

Below is an illustration of b-matching from ( Huang,Jebara AISTATS 2007 ) paper. You start with a weighted graph and the goal is to connec...

My group has intern openings for winter and summer. Winter may be too late (but if you really want winter, ping me and I'll find out fea...

A discussion came up on Guido von Rossum's Google Plus post . It comes down to the fact that 2.1 is not exactly represented as a floati...

I've taken some publicly available fonts and extracted glyphs from them to make a dataset similar to MNIST. There are 10 classes, with ...

In the old days you could statically link your program and run it on another Unix station without worrying about dependencies. Unfortuna...

Google+ seems to have a fair number of Machine Learning people, I was able to track down 50 people I've met at conferences by starting a...

Computers are supposed to be deterministic. This is often the case for single processor machines. However, as you scale up, guaranteeing det...

Google is hiring and there are lots of opportunities to do Machine Learning-related work here. Kevin Murphy is applying Bayesian methods to ...

Five years ago I ran some queries on Google Scholar to see trends on the number of papers that mention particular phrase. The number of hit...

I just noticed that Justin Domke has a blog -- He's one of the strongest researchers in the field of graphical models. I first came acr...

I've accepted an offer from Google and will be joining their Tesseract team next week. I first got interested in OCR when I faced a pr...

Maximum independent set, or "maximum stable" set is one of classical NP-complete problems described in Richard Karp's 1972 pap...

A recent discussion on stackoverflow brought up the issue of results of floating point arithmetic being non-reproducible A reader asked wha...

Today I got Google Alert today on the following pending patent -- Belief Propagation for Generalized Matching . I like to stay up on Belief...

With regular distributive law you can do things like $$\sum_{x_1,x_2,x_3} \exp(x_1 + x_2 + x_3)=\sum_{x_1} \exp x_1 \sum_{x_2} \exp x_2 \sum...

Suppose we want to count the number of independent sets in a graph below. There are 9 independent sets. Because the graphs are disjoint we c...

There's a neat connection between Cholesky factorization and graph triangulations -- graph corresponding to Cholesky factorization of a ...

Here's a 367 vertex Apollonian Network and its Junction Tree (aka Tree Decomposition) A Junction Tree provides an efficient data struct...

Here's a page linking 65 attempts of resolving P vs NP problem. A couple of papers were published in peer-reviewed journals or conferen...

First programmers wrote in machine code and assemblers simplified this task significantly by letting them give algorithms at a higher level....

Here's a tool (in Mathematica) to help visualize the process of constructing a Junction Tree. wrong link fixed Clicking on vertices cor...