In response to my naive impression of Infer.NET, John Winn has supplied a wealth of insight into its design and implementation: Many thanks for taking the time to look at Infer.NET and post your comments. As one of the researchers behind Infer.NET, I would like to explain a bit more about the project which may…

I finally found time to look through Infer.NET.  For those not in the know and too lazy to click on links, Infer.NET is a new projecting coming out of Microsoft Research.  According to them, it’s a framework for machine learning.  They claim that provides a lot of state-of-the-art stuff, including “message passing.”  I’m not sure…

I’m currently working on a group project for school in the domain of document categorization, but a large portion of my group knows very little about the area.  So, I decided I would do a write-up that explains the domain, the basics of common approaches, and things of that nature.  What follows is meant to…

In the last post, I introduced the topic of machine learning.  In this post, I’ll describe an example problem, discuss how you might go about writing code to address the problem, then discuss how you can apply machine learning to the same problem and get the computer to do the heavy lifting for you.  In…

I’m going to be doing some posts on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data mining over the coming weeks and months as I try to crank out a thesis.  Since machine learning isn’t a topic that a lot of developers are familiar with, I decided it would be best to write up a brief summary…