chromophore

to be precise - http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~guttman/cs521_website/Dougherty_lectu...

Look at the notes similar to the one linked at the end of this website. http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~guttman/cs521_website/index.html

I think this is a very helpful page.

MATLAB is a language? ;-)

The comments are as retarded as the article itself.

Typical western comparison as one commenter put it as.

This has been here before : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=795388

Unfortunate because it has distorted the original idea beyond recognition. :) A lot of people know F. J. Dyson only for Dyson "spheres" (the original conception was that of a swarm, SF modified the idea to a sphere, then shell). Though it's obvious he did a lot of other work and that the Dyson sphere was nothing as compared to what he has done. It was just a thought experiment.

Of course it has. Dyson Spheres are famous in SF. The Matrioshka Brains are just distant relatives of the same.

http://home.fnal.gov/~carrigan/infrared_astronomy/Fermilab_s...

The link above is to a fermi lab program to look for Dyson spheres. The Matrioshka brain is a subset of the Dyson sphere. Something made famous, unfortunately, by Trekkers.

I notice some people above saying that it could be a mistake. I think it could be. But it is less likely that it was.

I say that because Pachauri had been saying for a year that the Indian government was being arrogant by not agreeing to their "findings". And he rejected research such as this : http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/MoEF%20Discu... Compiled by people who have 3-4 decades of experience in Himalayan glaciology.

Please do check that review paper. It is not easy to find.

And I prefer the book by Bishop, It strikes a fine balance between the maths and the ideas.

Agree with you Paras!

Shubhendu here by the way! :)

I was taken aback a little by the suggestion to use the UCI repository with R for beginning ML.

I would agree with your approach, I learnt all my basics from Andrew Ng's course and his course more or less follows what you said. :)

I don't agree with you. Read "Shadows of the Mind", your opinions on him might change.

I don't think being a Polymath means you have to know mutually exclusive stuff. I don't that's possible in the sciences anyway.

Really? ;-)

Society of the mind was one of the best books I read when i read some years ago!

This post is supposed to be suggestive. ;-)

That's the trouble with videolectures.net! I am personally not fond of it. But am forced to visit it as it has a LOT of amazing talks.

Hmmm, Okay! Enough said. Why can't there be much interest? :)

My old professor (who is an authority with RBMs) linked me up and asked me to see and make sure I know certain things about it.Let me give it some months and report back to him. I basically work with SVMs, it's his suggestion to study RBMs (which I know already) and sent me a number of papers. I am not sure why he sent me this one (it's just a month old). This one to be frank looked pretty nice to me, and I downloaded a number of other papers to study it. Even if I give up. I'll be glad to learn some of the math involved. I'd rather go with his opinion. Thanks.

The aim of my submission (as is the aim of most my submissions) was actually to get some comments on it, and links to some resources. Not what a person should learn and what not. I'll know better what to do and why. Given the wide pool of people on HN, I was hoping to get something interesting, say some comments ON the paper. Even one helpful comment would have done.

LOL. The paper is very recent. And extremely impregnable for someone like me. I was actually hoping for some comments on it by people who work on RBMs. Like I got some good comments on a ML gallery I posted. Sometimes comments help clear up things, and even a little clearing up is good IMHO.

I think they did because they didn't have a look at the abstract, but read it partially by title only. And maybe you know, thought it was something introductory on RBM's ? I mean RBMs are extremely pretty. And I am just beginning to appreciate that.

I am reading this these days. I think you are right about this not being here. Sorry. Will keep in mind.

LOL "TriinT" I know what you mean. :)

I think I'll keep reading PHD comics, just because it's really funny. I don't relate it to grad-school as such. Just the whole exaggerated sense it is written in.

Anyone here has a few suggestions on groups who do Computational Neuro-Science/ Cognitive Neuroscience and use Machine Learning extensively in it?

Reading your comment. I can consider myself lucky to have it. Have seen Cosmos two times.

Sagan was a wonderful man!

Exactly. Asperger's is not introversion.

Good comment plinkplonk. My first comment was made "at the spur". Not the guys fault. but reading too many articles on "Indian Culture" today. But I definitely thought it was a ridiculous comment. I agree with the edited versions.

And No I was referring specifically to the 1910 halley's comet. Not the incidence you mentioned.

>>It was definitely global: and the material reference India and Rome specifically.

Sure it had to be. But it can not be in India due to news that the comet tail had cyanide AT ALL. In India it would have to do more with religious and cultural implications of a comet than what it had (just like it would have had an impact in Europe a century earlier).

>> You've brought "backward" into this: im uncomfortable with that.

Well I should I have been clearer. What I meant was not related to your point. I meant that a lot of people would still think that eclipse has to do with gods than being a physical phenomenon. I think that ignorance. And this is more prevalent in people in India who are educationally backward.

>> I've noticed that stigma is less apparent

I found your paragraph interesting. And I do not agree. There could be a whole new thread on that.

>> And note we are talking about panic: which is a bad thing in these circumstances. If it is, as you say, confined to those coming from abroad then mass panic seems overkill. Concern, planning and education is the better approach (but everywhere has fallen foul of that)...

I agree with the rest of your comment after this point. And I think this is more studied.

Here check this video my friend : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6Q79FkBoQ

see after 3:25. Please do.

People in India would not commit suicide due to knowing there is cyanide in comet's tail. But because maybe the gods are angry. ;-) So I do think your comment was ignorant at face value.

Hysteria is common to all cultures. Certain hysteria would be more likely in western cultures and some more likely in eastern cultures. A bomb blast in LA would lead to hysteria in CA. A bomb blast in Peshawar would be normal. Life would be okay in another two days.

I don't think it's wise to say it's a culture thing.

Avoid editing the same comment please and write a new one instead.

The context of my replies gets lost.

It's okay if you find it offensive. I found your original unedited comment equally offensive.

While I respect your interest in people and I don't mean it to be personal at all.

Ah!!

Well my dear friend this was not in India. But America. I remember watching about this hysteria on Carl Sagan's Cosmos. They had organized parties all over California as they thought they were going to die in some days as the Earth would be finished. And so it was better to have fun, make confessions etc. So there.

Coming back. Well don't you think there's a difference between 1910 and now? If you move the clock back a little. I think witches were pretty common in America and Europe (and related hysteria in towns and cities where they were "located") too don't you think? Or take the hysteria after the launch of the Sputnik. People thought they were just going to be bombed every second day.

And suicides weren't because it was said Halleys' tail had cyanide. It was because of this: Comets have had a history IN ALL cultures to invoke some sort of fear. The only difference is that there are still a lot of people in Eastern countries who are backward. That's the only difference. In Europe not very long ago, comets could lead to executions. In places like India and China there are still a lot of people who hold on to such beliefs that the gods are angry.

And when I said about culture I meant that there are hundreds of cultures and such rituals are more prevalent in some of them than the others. So generalizing would be a sin.

About flu. I have not been to America since the outbreak of the flu so I can't say. I think in India and China some of it is necessary. A lot of people live in slums, and these are more likely to catch the virus once it has spread. Right now it is confined to people who came in touch with people coming from abroad. If there isn't a certain degree of hysteria, there could be catastrophe when these poor people start getting it.

And I agree with your point about the media created frenzy, but I again believe that it's the same in all countries if you normalize.