If we want to learn a new concept we may ask for a definition. This might be good in mathematics, but in real life it is often better to get some examples. Let us, for instance, try to understand what despair means. The dictionary tells us that it means ‘loss of hope’. This is just…
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Is every pattern recognition problem a small sample size problem?
Monday, February 23rd, 2015 at
14:56
Surprisingly good results in flow-cytometry classification
Sunday, July 20th, 2014 at
17:31
Are the evaluation results of the new procedure you worked on for months, worse or at most marginally better than the baseline procedure? Don’t worry, it happens all the time. Are they surprisingly good? Congratulations! You may write an interesting paper. But can you really understand why they are so good? Check, check, and double-check….
The Eurovision Song Contest Analyzed
Wednesday, May 14th, 2014 at
18:07
The results of the 2014 Eurovision Song Festival may be of interest from a number of perspectives, e.g. artistic, political and cultural. Here I will focus on the last point and show how by simple pattern recognition tools the cultural similarities between the participating countries can be analyzed. At the end it will be discussed…
Classifying the exception
Monday, May 27th, 2013 at
00:00
Exceptions do not follow the rules. That is their nature. Humans know how to handle them. Can that be learnt? Learning a rule One of the first real world datasets I had to handle consisted of the examination results of the two-year propedeuse in physics. Students passed or failed depending on their scores for 15…
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