History of Monte Carlo Methods - Part 1

Posted on Fri 16 October 2015 in Statistics

Some time ago in June 2013 I gave a lab tutorial on Monte Carlo methods at Microsoft Research. These tutorials are seminar-talk length (45 minutes) but are supposed to be light, accessible to a general computer science audience, and fun.

In this tutorial I explain and illustrate a number of …


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The Julia language for Scientific Computing

Posted on Fri 02 October 2015 in Programming

Julia is a relatively new programming language with the declared goal to become the leading language for scientific computing.

I have probably annoyed half of my colleagues by raving about how great the language is and what it is good at. Before we get to this, and in my defense …


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How good are your beliefs? Part 2: The Quiz

Posted on Fri 18 September 2015 in Statistics, Machine Learning

This post continues the previous post, part 1 on scoring rules. However, today we will be more hands on, testing your skill of making good and well-calibrated predictions.

To this end, I will ask you several questions about numerical quantities and I would like to hear an answer stated as …


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How good are your beliefs? Part 1: Scoring Rules

Posted on Fri 04 September 2015 in Statistics, Machine Learning

This article is the first of two on proper scoring rules, a specific type of loss function defined on probability distributions or functions of probability distributions.

If this article sparks your interest, I recommend the gentle introduction to scoring rules in the context of decision theory in Chapter 10 of …


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Machine Learning for Intelligent Image and Video Processing (ICCV 2015 Workshop)

Posted on Wed 02 September 2015 in Computer Vision, Image Processing, Machine Learning

Michael Hirsch and myself are organizing a workshop on the topic of machine learning for image and video processing as part of the ICCV 2015 programme.

The workshop takes place on the 17th December 2015 in Santiago, Chile, right after the main ICCV conference.

Call for Contributions

Image processing methods …


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