Over the last few years, Machine Learning has grown much faster than anyone could have imagined. People are rapidly starting to focus more and more on machine learning research which leads me to my… (more…)

This week Jonathon and Vidya are out of town, so Chris takes the helm and gives his opinionated guide to learning machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. Resources mentioned this episode: (more…)

non-overwhelming-machine-learning - A (non overwhelming) list of Machine Learning resources for beginners...

The most challenging part of Machine Learning is “optimization”. Gradient Descent is one of the most popular optimization algorithms used… (more…)

This blog post introduces several improvements to PySpark that facilitate the development of custom ML algorithms and 3rd-party ML packages using Python. After introducing the main algorithm APIs in MLlib, we discuss current challenges in building custom ... (more…)