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Last week, I spent Thursday and Friday at the Strange Loop conference in St. Louis, Missouri. It turned out to be a pretty great conference, even if I missed out on a lot of interesting talks due to a school project I had to finish and a lot of time spent volunteering. The ones I did make it to were amazing, however. (You can access the slides for each of the talks at the Strange Loop presentations page ).
I started off with Hilary Mason ‘s talk on machine learning, and even through I missed the first 10-15 minutes or so, I arrived in time to hear her (a) run through Bayes’ Theorem in about a minute without going too far over the audience’s heads (or so I thought), (b) give a high-level overview of her Twitter Commander ( Github link ) Python application (which uses machine learning techniques to filter tweets from the 640 people she follows on Twitter) (c) say “Cheat as much as you can” in regards to solving
Then, I had to take a hiatus to finish up my project proposal for, ironically enough, my Machine Learning class. That took a while.
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