Videos from the first week of lectures are available

The videos from the first week are now available online:

Course Introduction (pdf, video)
Data Mining (pdf, video)
Machine Learning for Data Mining (pdf, video)
Data Representation (pdf, video)
Association Rules Basics (pdf, video)

Note that the first three videos are rather blurred. Unfortunately I did
not realize that the videocamera had autofocusing problems with the
screen. That’s why in the next […]

The videos from the first week are now available online:

Note that the first three videos are rather blurred. Unfortunately I did
not realize that the videocamera had autofocusing problems with the
screen. That’s why in the next lectures I positioned the videorecording
equipment differently.

Another post will follow with the link to the audio/video podcast.

Videos from the first week are now available

The videos from the first week are now available online:

Course Introduction (pdf, video)
Data Mining (pdf, video)
Machine Learning for Data Mining (pdf, video)
Data Representation (pdf, video)
Association Rules Basics (pdf, video)

Note that the first three videos are rather blurred. Unfortunately I did not realize that the videocamera had autofocusing problems with the screen. That’s why in the […]

The videos from the first week are now available online:

Note that the first three videos are rather blurred. Unfortunately I did not realize that the videocamera had autofocusing problems with the screen. That’s why in the next lectures I positioned the videorecording equipment differently.

Another post will follow with the link to the audio/video podcast.

The next generation of neural networks

Some few days ago, while preparing my lectures about neural networks, I ran into the video “The next generation of neural networks” by Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers in machine learning and in the field of neural networks in particular.
Hinton starts the talk by presenting the first generation of neural networks, which included systems […]

Some few days ago, while preparing my lectures about neural networks, I ran into the video “The next generation of neural networks” by Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers in machine learning and in the field of neural networks in particular.

Hinton starts the talk by presenting the first generation of neural networks, which included systems such as perceptrons  (which could not adapt), and the second generation of neural networks, which included methods to let the network to adapt, such as Backpropagation. After referring to Backpropagation as a huge disappointment, Hinton quickly shifts to other systems such as support vector machines (a clever perceptron according to Hinton),  restricted Boltzmann machines, and some particular machines that can do amazing things.

In summary, a video really worth watching, which presents neural networks in a nice way  that can be easily understood for non-experts in this field as me.