I've recently submitted a couple of talk proposals to upcoming conferences. Here are the abstracts.

Machine learning in (without loss of generality) Perl
London Perl Workshop, Saturday 24th November 2012. 25 minutes.If you read a book or take a course on machine learning, you'll probably spend a lot of time learning about how to implement standard ( Read more... )

I've been doing Stanford's online Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning courses. Both have their good points and bad points: here are my comments so far.

[The Introduction to Databases course looks interesting too, but I only have a finite number of hours in the day ( Read more... )

Previously on posts tagged with 'angst' (mostly friendslocked): our hero became depressed, sought help, and is now (mostly) feeling better. Now read on...

John Walker, in his excellent book The Hacker's Diet, distinguishes two approaches to tackling problems, which he calls the Manager's approach and the Engineer's approach. Management is about ( Read more... )