Claude Shannon demonstrates machine learning using electromagnets, relay circuits, and a magnetic mouse named "Theseus." Filmed around 1950...

New drugs typically take 12-14 years to make it to market, with a 2014 report finding that the average cost of getting a new drug to market had ballooned... (more…)

A quick introduction to the machine learning field exploring both supervised and unsupervised approaches.

Welcome to my series of posts Machine Learning explained to my girlfirend. It does not aim to be exhaustive nor specific, but to be fun and easy to understand. Here are the parts of the series : Part 1 : What is Machine Learning ? Part 2 : Supervised Lear...

10/1/09 update — well, it’s been nearly a year, and I should say not everything in this rant is totally true, and I certainly believe much less of it now. Current take: Statistics, not machine learning, is the real deal, but unfortunately suffers fro...