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A challenge which machine learning practitioners often face, is how to deal with skewed classes in classification problems. Such a tricky situation occurs when one class is over-represented in the dat...

Everybody who has taken a machine learning course probably knows the geometric intuition behind a support vector machine (SVM, great book): A SVM is a large margin classifier. In other words, it maxim...

Half a year ago, I was working in the heart of Silicon Valley and attended many meetups and networking parties – yes, I would call them parties rather than events. It became obvious to me that I wante...

After the installation of Nutch as described in my previous post, you can either follow this tutorial without the need of thinking, or get a sense of how Nutch actually works beforehand. I recommend d...