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6th March 2013

SaaS on youtube http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC-XXv-cvA_iDTKE56ZRv92RJNnLmy2aZh http://bombermine.com/

10th October 2012

Henry, Marcin, Geoff, Darian, Ben, Bernard

Henry is taking a break from minutes this week.

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3rd October 2012

Marcin, Peter, Iain, Henry, Ben, Geoff

Peter, Iain, Jeremy, Ben are doing Scala Course Course is teaching functional programming principles. Scala's creator speaking at Java keynote

Marcin talked about Haskell I/O monads.

Marcin talks about Neural networks.

Geoff talked about the Manga guide to linear algebra. Manga guide to linear alebra

Jeremy talking about Stats 1 and Stats for Data analysis. Learning R. Gephi for data analysis.

Iain menioned Sickipedia a site of risque jokes.

Henry mentioned nontransitive dice, something Tom O'Brien mentioned earlier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice.

Ben proved that given 3 dice, A beats B beats C beats A. This has money-making possibilities. It reminds us of Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock. There are also 5 non-transitive dice which special properties. Non-transitive dice. http://singingbanana.com/dice/article.htm

Pub time!

26th September 2012

Henry, Marcin, Sam, Ben, Geoff, Iain, Sergiusz, Jeremy, Peter, Sonal, Sugam, Darian

Eiffel had lots of contractual stuff Henry told us about "Network, Friends, Money & Bytes" because Big Data boring, maybe fun like Model Thinking

"Scientific Computing" and "Introduction to Finance" at UW has premium model - pay to get more support (email announcement, and in associated materials)

Another online course hosting framework: https://venture-lab.org/

12th September 2012

Vincent, Sam, Ben, Marcin, Geoff, Bernard, Henry

  • Vincent - Gamification -- User Experience Design
  • Ben doing rails course (michael hartl - static pages) (html/javascript at code academy - http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/code-year)
  • Sam - ML/Statistics,NN,AI
  • Marcin - everything
  • Geoff - ML/Big Data & Web Intelligence/ Gamification
  • Bryan - Big Data & Web Intelligence,NN
  • Henry - Everything particularly Big Data/ Statistics
  • Bernard - Quantum Computing, Big Data, Cryptology

Big Data (instructor is big guy from IIT)

  • hw2 dataset
  • locality sensitive hashing - is really big - about finding matches ** hashing is taking a large piece of data and generating a unique key ** work out relevant factors from a piece of information then use then to put things close to each other ** uses a collection of functions *** finger print example *** sam mentioned kohonen net as a NN that is a way of mapping a large dimensionality input data set onto a 2d space so similar things are close to each other ** to big to get thing right ** reducing dimensionality
  • Schedule
  • Geoff felt the quizzes were disconnected - Bryan felt their was lots of unrelated material
  • only 2 chances to answer quizzes

normal hashing

1231231231231 --> 1 1231231231232 --> 7

locality sensitive hashing

1231231231231 --> 1 1231231231232 --> 2

trust in pure randomness

Statistics 1 (Andrew Conway)

  • Descriptive statistics
  • Ben wants to know about frequentists (related to Bayesians)
  • interesting use of pad and plasma screen
  • wine and sports
  • Homoscedasticity

ML

Bernard asking about Python coding:

Bernard recommending Quantum Computing - great whodunnit

Ben would like to hear more about cryptology and cryptography

Ben suggests smiley faces for students in sam's course, Bryan suggests to tell them how far away they are from being the best in the class. Geoff says adjust curve of smile as function of grade.

5th September 2012

Dave, Sam, Peter, Jeremy, Henry, Ben, Darian, Marcin, Geoff

Dave showed us using Chorepgraph to control Nao robot via Google hangout - has a plug and play framework for connecting up behaviours in a flow chart

Showed us the robot - there was a hackathon (in london) in February - was limited access - had the idea to get more people involved.

Robot can run behaviours in parallel

motor controls are apparently hard - impress the judges with juggling? probably just picking something up

the winners of the feb hackathon

  1. sports coaching
  2. drop and kick a ball
  3. play connect 4
  4. story telling and answering questions (winner?)

should make a marvin the paranoid android "where's my glasses" robot? could point at things -

interesting to think about team management - could start off with series of modules and then split out subgroups to program the python

checked out visual comedy with Jimeoin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqavDqWL_Q0

need away mission to comedy club

all agreed last week notes not sufficient

obreus - AI library (from Geoff) http://orbe.us/

Courses:

Stats: Sonal, Jeremy, Sam ML: Darian, Sam, Geoff, Peter All: Henry - web intelligence and big data (Peter) - catching up with princeton algorithms offline rails course ben

Sam wants to maintain Zarquon v1 - hoping Marcin can support a v=2 parameter

Sam showed lots of code school

http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/11229/is-this-rotating-cube-interface-user-friendly

29 August 2012

Jeremy, Iain, Marcin, Geoff, Walter, Sam, Sugam, Sonal.

Robot - hoping Dave Snowdon will come next week
-- Jeremy has the simulator running
-- hack thing is 21-23rd September

Sam - ML ... PGM
Darian - ML
Many people doing the NN course (Jeremy, Sugam, Sonal, Iain)

22 August 2012

Courses!

Peter mentioned http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/ PDF Download

Henry mentioned Think Stats PDF Download. Data available from here: http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/nsfg.html

If you're in to javascript visualisation http://selection.datavisualization.ch.

We went on a little detour talking about SSH agent fowarding. http://henrygarner.com/ssh-agent-forwarding-snow-leopard

Geoff mentioned http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/rackanode/. It makes you think about things.

Bye bye. Pub time.

[Addenda]

Ben talked about Bitcoin agents funding their own existence, this piqued my interest (after playing the amazing Rack-A-Node, see above). I found this article:

15th August 2012:

The meeting got off to a slow start amid concerns about where Ben had gotten to. After much deliberation the attendees agreed to struggle on without him and see how they coped. One enterprising chap (Henry? Sam?) thought that they should have a crack at the wiki so that Ben would not miss out and so that they could benefit from his wisdom when he caught up. You can imagine their relief when they came across a note reassuring them that Ben was hurtling towards them at great speed and that he would be there in plenty of time to drink beer.

Some random links:

Ideas for NAO robot hackathon:

  • Fly a helicopter
  • Drive a robot controlled car whilst sitting on it
  • killing kittens
  • Voice dictation (plus
  • Computer humour (obvs)
  • Cocktail waiter
  • Pick up basketball and put it in a basket
  • Commuter
  • A 'row'-bot in a boat
  • Teach it to operate siri
  • Play break dancing game by standing on an iPad
  • Sing daisy daisy
  • Use google image recognition to explain what things are
  • Walk around a room and then draw a map of it

8th August 2012:

The minutes were agreed by Ben on behalf of everyone else who was too lazy to read them.

Ben discussed his experiences installing rails on ubuntu. Using vagrant http://vagrantup.com/. http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/virtualize-this-instant-rails-in-a-virtual-box/ Penguins

Skycranes We talked about curiosity What is the protocol used to send pictures back http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/07/curiosity_software_upgrade/ Gayle, I'm inside you.

Fishing in swimming pools in Tokyo: photo to be supplied by Darian.

https://github.com/henrygarner/mahoutinaction https://github.com/henrygarner/entendre

Geoff mentioned GraphLab CM http://graphlab.org/

Data science London Music Data Hackathon http://www.meetup.com/Data-Science-London/events/70252792/

Chapter 11

Zarquon said: User: Stick it in to the corpus Zarquon: That's what she said!

Darian: Minecraft assumes human imagination

http://web.mit.edu/6.863/share/data/corpora/timit/dr1-fvmh0/

Installing Python http://johnlaudun.org/20120131-nltk-on-mac-os-x/

Hold opt+shift minimise window, killall Dock

The meeting resolved that pizza is good

1st August 2012:

The minutes from the meeting of the 25th July where unanimously agreed.

Sam (in spirit), Henry, Ben, Marcin, Geoff, Sugam, Sonal.

NLTK Ch 10:

Marcin was our spirit guide for discussing orders of logic. Propositional logic: The five operators - negation, conjunction, disjunction, implication, equivalence. First order logic: establishes predicates - functions from arguments to true or false Marcin explained how all x.(dog(x) -> disappear(x)) acts like a filter, applying disappear only to dogs. If dog(x) returns false, the statement is true and no further action is required. If dog(x) returns true, then disappear(x) must also be true.

We watched the Coursera 'Introduction to Logic' preview video on box logic, where a logical deduction was made by shuffling cardboard boxes with arrows around. Video Link

Sonal recommended The Essence of Logic

Henry walked through Programming with Nothing, which provides an implementation of a simple algorithm using Lambda Calculus principles.

It was generally agreed that:

∃x.(sam(x) ⋀ in(x,japan) ⟹ stinky(x) ⋀ ¬ read(x, ch10))

:)

Addenda:

Ben moved to register the domain trashtalkinlogic.com. This was not seconded, and fell.

Speedtest.net was run on the Likely WiFi and it was found to be good. 30Mb.s-1.

25th July 2012:

yet to be posted >

18th July 2012:

Sam, Ben, Henry, Walter, Marcin, Geoff, Jeremy, Peter

... general apologies

ML data sets from fb targeted advertising

sociology essay (250x2 and 750words) peer review final quantum computing/saas kicked off Walter learning python from MIT 600

100's of courses on coursera -- sam working on game course PGM related, Sam working on Python translation of PGM/ML homework py-coursera: https://github.com/tansaku/py-coursera

NLTK ch9 faqbot say meow

11th July 2012:

Sam, Ben, Henry, Marcin, Tom, Geoff, Peter, Jeremy, Sugam, Sonal

... general apologies

could get forum data from coursera for analysis

Ben talked about his initial efforts to create a world model. [Update: Ben has added a simplified version of his efforts in the world_model folder. Anyone fancy helping him out?] The initial focus is to make something for generating text adventure games (similar to those demoed by Sam). At the moment Ben's system is written in Python and is very Object inheritance heavy. He is looking for help to make it more scalable and/or add some sort of persistence. Suggestions included:

  • Python pickling
  • Some sort of graph database (neo4j, mongoDB)
  • Peter - RDF Ascii
  • opendirectory project from google
  • freebase

watched bret victor talk

henry said set of social contexts for bot unit tests Tom suggested emacs rocks (swank) http://emacsrocks.com/e11.html

pub!!!!!

aob http://www.r-bloggers.com/text-editors-in-the-lord-of-the-rings/

watch this: http://vimeo.com/22798433

Sublime Text 2

4th July 2012:

Sam, Ben, Geoff, Jeremy, Marcin and occasionally Henry

Geoff suggested creating a wiki, and we talked about making the faq bot record who was taking which course, and having that data accessible via natural language interface and via a browsable web view

-- would be lovely if we could pull in data via JSONP here, but can use the github documentation framework for that if necessary, a la:

Our Silly Chatbot

Sam's Silly Adventure Game

16th May 2012

Sam, Ben, Jeremy, Darian, Henry ...?

psychological emotional aspects of educational chatbot

TWSS is juvenile humor

modules can be of different implementation types, and also of emotional types

henry was thinking of modules in terms of content rather than implementation

learning which approach works best for each student

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