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Lower Your Expectations

Machine Learning, But For Idiots

Lower your expectations.

“I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.” -Enrico Fermi

What is machine learning?

Getting Started

• SciPy Lecture Notes - Tutorials on the scientific Python ecosystem
• NumPy Quickstart
• scikit-learn user guide
• List of classic datasets
• matplotlib

Mathematical Concepts

• Multivariate random variable
• Estimator
• Tail-heavy distribution
• Sparse Matrix

ML Algorithms

• Random forest