Recommendations and Feedbacks The vast majority of B2C services are quickly discovering the strategic importance of solid recommendation engines to improve the conversion rates and an establish a stronger fidelity with the customers. The most common strategies are based [3] on the segmentation of users according to their personal features (age range, gender, interests, social … [Read more…]
I would like to suggest the book Factfulness (by Hans Rosling) to every data scientist and every student who wishes to start this career. It’s not a technical book full of formulas, algorithms, and other complex stuff. Only a few plots and a lot of analysis, ideas, comparisons. Everybody should be aware to live in a … [Read more…]
Today I’ve published my latest book “Mastering Machine Learning Algorithms” (in a few days it will be available on all channels). From the back cover: Machine learning is a subset of AI that aims to make modern-day computer systems smarter and more intelligent. The real power of machine learning resides in its algorithms, which make … [Read more…]
A tutorial video (2 hours) derived from the book Machine Learning Algorithms has been released: Fundamental of Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn: From the notes: As the amount of data continues to grow at an almost incomprehensible rate, being able to understand and process data is becoming a key differentiator for competitive organizations. Machine Learning applications … [Read more…]
A tutorial video (2 hours) derived from the book Machine Learning Algorithms has been released: Getting Started with NLP and Deep Learning with Python. From the notes: As the amount of data continues to grow at an almost incomprehensible rate, being able to understand and process data is becoming a key differentiator for competitive organizations. Machine … [Read more…]
Think about walking along a beach. The radio of a small kiosk-bar is turned-on and a local DJ announces an 80’s song. Immediately, the image of a car comes to your mind. It’s your first car, a second-hand blue spider. While listening to the same song, you drove your girlfriend to the beach, about 25 … [Read more…]
Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) are neural structures proposed for the first time by the computer scientist T. Kohonen in the late 1980s (that’s why they are also known as Kohonen Networks). Their peculiarities are the ability to auto-cluster data according to the topological features of the samples and the approach to the learning process. Contrary to … [Read more…]
Passive Aggressive Algorithms are a family of online learning algorithms (for both classification and regression) proposed by Crammer at al. The idea is very simple and their performance has been proofed to be superior to many other alternative methods like Online Perceptron and MIRA (see the original paper in the reference section). Classification Let’s suppose … [Read more…]
Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is a very powerful technique, currently employed to optimize all deep learning models. However, the vanilla algorithm has many limitations, in particular when the system is ill-conditioned and could never find the global minimum. In this post, we’re going to analyze how it works and the most important variations that can … [Read more…]
“In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.” (J. Lacan) A virtual discussion with Jacques Lacan is a very hard task, above all when the main topic is Artificial Intelligence, a discipline that maybe he … [Read more…]
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