Asking a question in a seminar is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you gonna get.
“All of the humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées
The best thing to being Grad student is … “the free food” on a seminar.
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The learning problem and the principles before building a model.
This blog is mainly based on the book and lecture notes by Professor Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa from Caltech on Learning from data; you could benefit greatly from the lecture and videos.
“In God we trust, and others bring data”.
If you show a picture to a three-year-old and ask if there is a tree, you will likely get the correct answer. But if you ask a thirty-year-old what the definition of a tree is, you will likely get an inconclusive answer.
We didn’t learn what a tree is by studying the mathematical definition of a tree. We knew it by looking at the trees. In other words, we learn from ‘Data’.
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