The second edition of my book ‘Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Machine Learning in stereo’ is now available in both paperback ($10.99) and kindle ($7.99/Rs449) versions.  This second edition includes more content,  extensive comments and formatting for better readability. In this book I implement some of the most common, ...

My 4th book(self-published), “Deep Learning from first principles – In vectorized Python, R and Octave” (557 pages), is now available on Amazon in both paperback ($16.99) and kindle ($6.65/Rs449). The book starts with the most primitive 2-layer Neural Network and works  its way to a generic L-layer Deep Learning Network, with all ...

1. Introduction You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way. Marvin Minsky No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either. Marvin Minsky A wealth of information creates a poverty of ...

Artificial Intelligence is the new electricity. – Prof Andrew Ng Most of human and animal learning is unsupervised learning. If intelligence was a cake, unsupervised learning would be the cake, supervised learning would be the icing on the cake, and reinforcement learning would be the cherry on the cake. We know ...

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” Dr. Seuss “Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” H L Mencken Introduction In this 6th ...

Introduction a. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. b. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. c. A robot must protect its own existence ...

In this 4th post of my series on Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 4, I explore the details of creating a multi-class classifier using the Softmax activation unit in a neural network. The earlier posts in this series were 1. Deep Learning from first principles in ...

“Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of following my fancies as a butterfly, and was unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly, I awoke, and there I lay, ...

“What does the world outside your head really ‘look’ like? Not only is there no color, there’s also no sound: the compression and expansion of air is picked up by the ears, and turned into electrical signals. The brain then presents these signals to us as mellifluous tones and ...

“You don’t perceive objects as they are. You perceive them as you are.” “Your interpretation of physical objects has everything to do with the historical trajectory of your brain – and little to do with the objects themselves.” “The brain generates its own reality, even before it receives information coming ...

The 3rd  paperback edition of both my books on cricket is now available on Amazon for $12.99 a) Cricket analytics with cricketr, Third Edition ($12.99). This book is based on my R package ‘cricketr‘, available on CRAN and uses ESPN Cricinfo Statsguru b) Beaten by sheer pace! Cricket analytics with yorkr, 3rd ...

My book ‘Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Machine Learning in stereo’ is now available in both paperback ($9.99) and kindle ($6.97/Rs449) versions. In this book I implement some of the most common, but important Machine Learning algorithms in R and equivalent Python code. This is almost like listening to ...

Introduction This is the final and concluding part of my series on ‘Practical Machine Learning with R and Python’. In this series I included the implementations of the most common Machine Learning algorithms in R and Python. The algorithms implemented were 1. Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 1 In ...

This is the 5th and probably penultimate part of my series on ‘Practical Machine Learning with R and Python’. The earlier parts of this series included 1. Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 1 In this initial post, I touch upon univariate, multivariate, polynomial regression and KNN regression in R ...

This is the 4th installment of my ‘Practical Machine Learning with R and Python’ series. In this part I discuss classification with Support Vector Machines (SVMs), using both a Linear and a Radial basis kernel, and Decision Trees. Further, a closer look is taken at some of the metrics associated ...

In this post ‘Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 3’,  I discuss ‘Feature Selection’ methods. This post is a continuation of my 2 earlier posts Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 1 Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 2 While applying Machine Learning techniques, the data … Continue reading ...

In this 2nd part of the series “Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 2”, I continue where I left off in my first post Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 2. In this post I cover the some classification algorithmns and cross validation. Specifically I touch -Logistic Regression ...

Introduction This is the 1st part of a series of posts I intend to write on some common Machine Learning Algorithms in R and Python. In this first part I cover the following Machine Learning Algorithms Univariate Regression Multivariate Regression Polynomial Regression K Nearest Neighbors Regression The code includes the ...

In my recent post, My travels through the realms of Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and (AI), I had recounted my journey in the domains of of Data Science, Machine Learning (ML), and more recently Deep Learning (DL) all of which are useful while analyzing data. Of late, I ...

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies  When a new planet swims into his ken;  Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes  He star’d at the Pacific—and all his men  Look’d at each other with a wild surmise—  Silent, upon a peak in Darien.    ...