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How to get Data for ML systems Machine Learning is only possible with data. The more data, the better. For many services this is a self-improving system. The more data the system gets, the better it becomes. The better the system is, the more users use it. The more users use the system, the more data the … Read More »

Unsupervised Pretraining Neural networks have thousands, often millions of parameters. They take hundrets of features and predict thousands of classes. The features can often not be seen independantly, but have to be taken as a whole into consideration. Most parameters are not independant either. And still, we use only on the order … Read More »

ML Review 5 This Review gives an overview of intersting stuff I stumbled over which are related to machine learning. News Canada’s AI Moment AI is one step closer to mastering StarCraft: Multiagent Bidirectionally-Coordinated Nets for Learning to Play StarCraft Combat Game Deep learning for satellite imagery via image segmentation Hardware: Nvidia … Read More »

Natural Language Processing Natural language processing (NLP) is a scientific field which deals with language in textual form. Tasks Classification: Is an e-mail spam or not? Topic: Is it about sports, science or religion? Language: Is it English, German or French? Sentence boundary: Is a character the boundary of a sentence or not … Read More »

Defaults of Configuration Files I often need configuration files in the software I develop. In principle, I can think of two ways to deal with configuration files: Complete: The configuration file has to have all values which will later be accessed by the application Partial: The configuration file might only define some values. In … Read More »

Amazons Power Once in a while I see people demanding to buy products in stores rather than on Amazon. It is interesting that Amazon is seen as the only online retailer, but as it certainly is the biggest retailer in Germany I will focus on it for now. To make the following … Read More »

Master Thesis Draft: I want to share a couple of resources which I can't put directly in my thesis (such as code and trained models). I want to put a link in the thesis so that people know where to get it. This is a TODO for me ... come back at the … Read More »

Working at FZI If you are writing your Bachelors or Masters thesis or if you're a HiWi at FZI, you might find the following useful. OpenVPN Download the client.ovpn from the website your advisor gives you. This website can only be accessed outside of FZI and needs to be accessed by https … Read More »

Rental Scam I am currently searching for a flat in Munich. While doing so, I've seen (and contacted) three scammers. As most of the communication is in German, I will continue this article in German. You can use Google Translate. Betrügerische Nachrichten Wohnung 1 Inserat auf immonet.de: Miete zzgl. NK: 393 … Read More »

Git Bundle Sometimes you need to share code via E-Mail / stick. If the code you need to share is a git repository, creating a bundle is a pretty good way to do it. You can create a bundle with $ git bundle create repository-name.bundle --all Then you can restore the repository by … Read More »