research complete, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Well, okay, I’m not Dr Brochu just yet. There’s a list of minor revisions and some paperwork ahead of me. But on Friday, November 26, 2010, I successfully defended my thesis and passed my doctoral exam, so the days of gut-churning anxiety are finally over. It’s disturbing…
machine learning
unreasonable, effective
I don’t want to bore you with the technical, academic stuff I’ve been wresting with lately, but there is one paper that is probably worth checking out even if you’re not a Machine Learning person. On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data is noteworthy because (i) it’s geared to a (science-literate but) general audience; (ii) it’s…
Worio Public Beta is out!
At long last, I can reveal what I’ve been working on for the past year: the public beta version of Worio.com! Worio combines search and recommendation with the philosophy that user effort should be kept to a minimum. You can simply use your favourite existing search engine, or Worio’s own, and receive recommendations based on…
headed to SIGGRAPH
As previously promised, I am headed to SIGGRAPH! I will be presenting a poster of my research with Abhi and Nando on Monday and Wednesday (booth I03): Preference Galleries for Material Design. This is the first time I’ve publicly presented this particular research, so it will be interesting to hear what people think of it….
the interweb, it is mostly not so good
For the past few weeks, my job has been working to design, test and implement algorithms to train machines to distinguish between different sorts of web pages.