Category: scikit-learn
#bug #omp #orthogonal matching pursuit #dictionary learning #scikit-learn
A while back, Bob L. Sturm blogged about a similar implementation of OMP to the one in scikit-learn. Instead of using the Cholesky decomposition like we did, his Matlab code uses the QR decomposition, to a similar (or maybe even identical) outcome, in theory. So lucky that Alejandro pointed out …
Category: python
#monte carlo #numpy #random sampling #ratio-of-uniforms #scipy #python
One year ago I had the chance to take a class on Monte Carlo simulation with prof. Ion Văduva, and my assignment for the class was to implement exactly what it says in the title of the blog post. I am going to walk you through the idea behind this …
Category: conferences
#conferences #nlp
Last week was marked by the international RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) conference, taking place in a nice spa in Hissar, Bulgaria. The excellent folks from the computational linguistics group at the University of Wolverhampton were behind it, together with the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies from …