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GB449 10-06-2013 05:29 PM
Thank you for a great course!
 
A BIG Thank You to Prof. Yaser Abu-Mostafa for a brilliant course. I enjoyed it right from the start (took me slightly more than a month to read the book, listen to the lectures and attempt (most :)) of the assignments). I did this in spite of having a very busy and challenging day job only because of the quality of the book and Prof. Abu-Mostafa's lectures. Thank you again, Professor!

Lecture 18 recommended a few topics for follow up: Bayesian theory, Graphical models, Aggregation and Reinforcement.

I am looking for good books / lectures on those topics. Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning by David Barber appears to be a good book. I am interested in both theory and practice. I want to use ML professionally as a data scientist (which I am not right now), so practical would be better. I have a Math. background, so always appreciate the theory but I want to use ML at work. Any recommendations for packages and books will be appreciated. I recently purchased Data Mining with R by Luis Torga.

Thank you!

yaser 10-06-2013 10:01 PM
Re: Thank you for a great course!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by GB449 (Post 11536)
A BIG Thank You to Prof. Yaser Abu-Mostafa for a brilliant course. I enjoyed it right from the start (took me slightly more than a month to read the book, listen to the lectures and attempt (most :)) of the assignments). I did this in spite of having a very busy and challenging day job only because of the quality of the book and Prof. Abu-Mostafa's lectures. Thank you again, Professor!
You are most welcome, and thank you for your kind words. I am sorry that I am not as responsive here during this fall term, as I am attending the edX forum where the course is offered and I am pressed for time.

GB449 10-07-2013 12:45 PM
Re: Thank you for a great course!
 
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Originally Posted by yaser (Post 11539)
You are most welcome, and thank you for your kind words. I am sorry that I am not as responsive here during this fall term, as I am attending the edX forum where the course is offered and I am pressed for time.
The fact that you respond to posts, is good enough :) When you get the time, could you please suggest follow up reading / courses? I am very interested in building on the foundation from your course. Thank you!

thedesigneroffice 07-17-2018 09:47 PM
Re: Thank you for a great course!
 
I am new to machine learning and I just started the course. So far it is good. Thanks Yaser sir.

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