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Huge Discount on Kindle Academic Texts at Amazon — Today Only
Anyone who collects academic texts knows that the hobby can be a bit expensive. Well, today I happened to notice that there is an incredible deal on Amazon's Gold Box Deal for today for many kindle academic books. And they are not just unpo...
IBS reversion edge with QuantShare
Happy New Years to readers; my resolution this year is to continue delivering thoughts and ideas to others in the hopes that we all might be able to benefit somewhat from sharing observations. I'll start by describing an edge using QuantShare as the b...
Book Review: R for Business Analytics, A Ohri
I've added a recently released book to my list of recommendations (at the amazon carousel to the right), as I've reviewed a copy provided to me via Springer Publishers. The book is R for Business Analytics, authored by A Ohri. ...
The Kaggle Bug
If you have any interest in data mining and machine learning, you might have already caught the Kaggle bug.I myself fairly recently got caught up in following the various contests and forums after reading a copy of "Practical Time Series Forecasting," ...
The Facebook Doomsday Watch
I've been following the myriad circus of Facebook commentators and bystanders pointing to its horrific failed IPO launch and seemingly inevitable crash to zero. While my focus here isn't really so much on fundamentals or basic TA; I do want to comment ...
Expanding Visualization of published system edges (R)
I happened to be looking over a revised text of a systems author I happen to follow. I will be a bit vague about specifics, as the system itself is based on well know ideas, but I'll leave the reader to research related systems. The basic message...
MINE: Maximal Information-based NonParametric Exploration
There was a lot of buzz in the blogosphere as well as the science community about a new family of algorithms that are able to find non-linear relationships over extremely large fields of data. What makes it particularly useful is that the measure(s) it...
Free Online Stanford Machine Learning Course: Andrew Ng. Post Mortem.
Happy New Year to all the viewers of this blog and just a short reminder that the course will be available again this January.http://www.ml-class.org/course/auth/welcomeHaving audited the course, I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested ...
Free auditing of Stanford AI and Machine Learning Courses w/Peter Norvig
Just wanted to notify viewers of a few great courses that are being offered free for auditing and/or participation by well known industry experts, including co-author of the classic text on AI, 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,' Peter Norvig...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
