3 Minute Thesis Competition - 3MT

Can you explain your dissertation in 3 minutes?

UMBC has a 3MT competition this Wednesday.  

WED, MAR 23 AT 8:00 AM, BALTIMORE, MD


If you are preparing for a 3MT, this is a good resource.



Other good 3MT videos:

2010 Trans-Tasman 3MT Winner - Balarka Banerjee from Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) on Vimeo.

Markdown

I am starting to use markdown more.  For me, I wanted to know why I should care about markdown.  This article gives a good view of why to use and there is a link to a tutorial.

Read it here.

Flask

Flask...

"Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions."

I toyed around with the tutorial and was able to get a few simple apps running.  I suppose if you are interested in building web sites, this might be interesting to try.  I haven't determined if it is useful for anything else.

http://flask.pocoo.org/

Image Processing

Scipy package documentation:

http://www.scipy-lectures.org/packages/scikit-image/

Spring Break.....

I love working on campus during spring break.  Front space parking, empty lab, no line for coffee.....ahhh nirvana....


No coffee! Bah!

Ugh, dissertation

In those moments when you are frustrated with your dissertation, breathe, and know there are others feeling the same pain.....

The valley....



Ride the wave to finish this thing...

DL4J

I have been using Java for a long time but I find DL4J to be a bit cumbersome to use.  I prefer Torch/Lua or Theano for deep learning.

However because Java has been such a significant part of my life for so long, I will not give up on DL4J.

More to come once I get this working.

In the meantime, here are a few links, so I can close those tabs:-)....

word2vec in DL4J
deep autoencoders in DL4J
nd4j

Whooo, Ahhh, ....

Nonlinear PCA for Matlab, fun stuff here!

I like popcorn and I like bag of words

I think I am going to like this too.

Beginners, may not be very useful, but they said popcorn, so they have my attention....

Data sets for Presidential Debates

I want to play with these data sets, I really do, why haven't I done this yet....

Get them here....

swirl (no not that one Sematic Webbers)

swirl is a way to learn R and data science interactively.

Try it out here.

Overlapping histograms and Histogram Tutorial in Python

A thread that talks about this topic.  Much easier to do in R.


More on histograms

matplotlib

Examples using matplotlib.

Tutorial for matplotlib.

A little bit on density plots.

And an introduction to plotting in Python.

knitr

For dynamic report generation in R.

Link for knitr

Deep Learning Resources

Great Papers:
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/papers/ftml.pdf
http://deeplearning.net/reading-list/

Tutorials:

TensorFlow:
https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.7/tutorials/index.html

Theano:
http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/

Matlab:
http://deeplearning.stanford.edu/tutorial/

Caffe:
http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/tutorial/

Torch:
https://github.com/soumith/cvpr2015/blob/master/Deep%20Learning%20with%20Torch.ipynb

Important Names and associated tutorials/talks:

Hinton:
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/nntut.html

LeCun:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~yann/talks/lecun-ranzato-icml2013.pdf

Socher:
http://www.socher.org/index.php/DeepLearningTutorial/DeepLearningTutorial

Common Datasets:

MNIST - http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/

CIFAR - https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kriz/cifar.html

LSUN - http://lsun.cs.princeton.edu/

IMAGENET - http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/

Others:http://deeplearning.net/datasets/

Courses:

https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning--ud730 - Basic but uses TensorFlow, good to get a basic understanding
https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets - Provides great intuition, a little more challenging
https://cs231n.github.io/ - Great for understanding deep learning for images

How to read a research paper

http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2016/01/how-read-scientific-paper

word2vec tutorials and references

This is a nice way to get exposed to word2vec and to reduce the number of tabs in my browser:-)

References	Reference Type
Making sense of word2vec tutorial	Blog
Insights on word2vec	Blog
word2vec Explained	Paper
word2vec an Introduction	Blog
Word2Vec Tutorial Part I: The Skip-Gram Model	Blog
Word2Vec Tutorial Part II: The Continuous Bag-of-Words Model	Blog
Evaluation methods for unsupervised word embeddings	Paper
Improving Topic Models with Latent Feature Word Representations	Paper
Deep Learning, NLP, and Representations	Blog
What Should I Know Before Taking On word2vec	Reddit Post
CS224d: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing	Course
word2vec code	Code

Convolutional Nets

Resources that give great intuition:

Relates to NLP
To understand convolution
Tutorial

GenSim and LDA

This is a nice little simple tutorial on using GenSim to exercise LDA.
GenSim LDA Tutuorial

Learn to speak or teach better in 30 minutes

This is a great article by Andrew Ng.