Franck Bardol, bardolfranck@gmail.comIgor Carron, igor.carron@gmail.com

September 17th, 2013

Machine Learning: What is it good for ?

What is **not** Machine

Learning ?• Tools: Databases, etc...

• Languages: Python, Java, LISP, Clojure, functional programming,....

• Frameworks

• Big Data

• High Performance Computing, Hadoop, GraphLab....

• Compressive sensing, ....

From Wikipedia

• "...Machine learning, a branch of artificial

intelligence, concerns the construction and

study of algorithms and systems that can

learn from data. In general, Machine

Learning algorithms process large amounts

of data, discover patterns in data, and

construct Predictive models for a desired

task...."

We've heard that story

before!

• AI winter 1990's

Avant, on avait

• Neural networks

• Fuzzy logic

• .....

Mais ça, c'était avant !

• Neural Networks (Deep Learning)

• Fuzzy logic (Bayesian logic, MCMC,....)

• ....

Why ?• Moore's Law

• Genome sequencer Law

• "new" math and statistics (small # observations, large # variables)

• and....

...the ability to prove its

worthiness

... the ability to prove

worthiness

Examples

• Engineering

• Search engines,

• web mining, click mining, Ad placement, RT Bidding

• Computer vision, image understanding, situational awareness

• Natural language processing, Machine Translation

• Anti-spam,

• Learning analytics

• Financial trading, HFT

• Recommender systems....

• Autonomous systems

• Scientific investigations: astronomy, genomics,...

Where are we, right

now?

Pourquoi ces

meet-ups?• Pour les débutants, permettre de voir ce qui est faisable au de-là

de considérations technologiques. Cette "science" est nouvelle, tout le monde souffre du syndrôme de l'imposteur à des degrés divers.

• Pour les experimentés

• Apprendre

• Meilleure connaissance des avancées algorithmiques

• Pour tous

• Dévelopement d'une culture parisienne et française des données et des algorithmes d'apprentissages.

Contact us if you want to

give a talk or host a meetup

• Franck Bardol, bardolfranck@gmail.com

• Igor Carron, igor.carron@gmail.com