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ECML–PKDD 2010 Highlights
The city of Barcelona just hosted ECML/PKDD this year and I had the opportunity to go down and check out the latest and greatest mostly from the European machine learning community. My personal highlights The conference for me started with a good tutorial by Francis Bach and Guillaume Obozinsky. They gave an overview of sparsity:…
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Is Bayesian Statistics Easier?
Many people have debated the merits of Bayesian statistics versus Frequentist statistics: very recently there was this discussion in Bayesian Analysis by Gelman. It’s a fascinating discussion and I’m just learning to ins and outs of different arguments myself.First, I want to point people to this (short) but very insightful articl…