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Saiph's Blog: June 2013
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Social Computing, Machine Learning, Deutsch Musik, and Code. Sunday, June 16, 2013. Studying the Thesis of PhD Heroes: Munmun De Choudhury. Given that I am in the process of beginning to write my PhD thesis, I am currently reviewing the PhD thesis of doctors that have been more than successful in their career; these are people I admire and find inspirational for my own PhD path: my PhD heroes. In the following we begin exploring in detail each of the main themes discussed in her thesis. The work consider...
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Saiph's Blog: Layman's Explanation of Online LDA
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Social Computing, Machine Learning, Deutsch Musik, and Code. Friday, July 27, 2012. Layman's Explanation of Online LDA. LDA stands for Latent Dirichlet Allocation, and it is a type of topic modeling algorithm. The purpose of LDA is to learn the representation of a fixed number of topics, and given this number of topics learn the topic distribution that each document in a collection of documents has. For example, if we were given the following sentences:. A:I spend the day at the beach tanning. What is th...
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Saiph's Blog: May 2011
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Social Computing, Machine Learning, Deutsch Musik, and Code. Monday, May 16, 2011. LDA is not Ladies Ditching Apes. I have recently been working on Topic Modelling and thought I'd do a brief tutorial on how to automatically divide a text into a series of relevant topics. Before we dive into our coding, let's give a brief overview of the topic so we are all on the same page:. Topic Modelling is all about automatically finding the thematic structure of a document or a series of documents. Labels: aprendiza...
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Saiph's Blog: March 2011
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Social Computing, Machine Learning, Deutsch Musik, and Code. Saturday, March 05, 2011. How to use Machine Learning to boost up your Parallel Computing. It is important to note, that these multi-processors have laid the road for using parallel computing, in which a large program can be divided into smaller programs, each of which is then assigned to a processor with shared or independent resources. Parallelism is what is generally used today, for providing Performance improvement. Because of this, machine...
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Saiph's Blog: October 2011
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Social Computing, Machine Learning, Deutsch Musik, and Code. Friday, October 14, 2011. Alles Auf Anfang, o la cancion para empezar tu vida. Tenia meses que queria compartir esta cancion. Es una cancion alemana de uno de mis grupos favoritos: Wir sind Helden. (Nosotros somos los heores! Si hay cosas que no te agradan de la vida, esta en tus manos cambiarlas. Ponte las pilas. Da todo cada dia! Da todo en este principio que viene! Aqui esta la cancion. Enjoy! 2355: Alles auf Anfang. Ich kann kein Ende sehen...
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Saiph's Blog: You know that thing I used to hate?...I love it now!: Expert Evolution in Social Media
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Social Computing, Machine Learning, Deutsch Musik, and Code. Monday, October 14, 2013. You know that thing I used to hate? I love it now! Expert Evolution in Social Media. It took me a long time to really appreciate some of the most successful people that have ever lived, such as Steve Jobs or Coco Chanel. Despite the adversity of being born orphans, these individuals changed their reality and transformed the world that we know. The work models the level of experience of each user as a series of latent p...
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Saiph's Blog: October 2013
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Social Computing, Machine Learning, Deutsch Musik, and Code. Monday, October 14, 2013. You know that thing I used to hate? I love it now! Expert Evolution in Social Media. It took me a long time to really appreciate some of the most successful people that have ever lived, such as Steve Jobs or Coco Chanel. Despite the adversity of being born orphans, these individuals changed their reality and transformed the world that we know. The work models the level of experience of each user as a series of latent p...
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Saiph's Blog: November 2014
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Social Computing, Machine Learning, Deutsch Musik, and Code. Monday, November 17, 2014. Social Spread Interface lets people select audiences based on their social connections. We tend to think that the larger our online audience, the more comments and interactions our content will receive. Yet this is not always the case. The presence of other people can create a diffusion of responsibility. Directing content to specific groups of people can help users harvest richer online interactions. Another techniqu...
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Saiph's Blog: April 2012
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Social Computing, Machine Learning, Deutsch Musik, and Code. Sunday, April 01, 2012. Social Signals and Machine interpretation. Have you found yourself alone in the dark, working on your computer feeling a tad depressed and wishing your computer could respond in some way to your mental and emotional state? Having machines understand emotion and social interactions, is beneficial for:. Intelligent Algorithms: that by understanding their user better, could respond to semantic queries and retrieve more rele...
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Saiph's Blog: Another layman's explanation of: Expert Evolution in Online Social Networks
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Social Computing, Machine Learning, Deutsch Musik, and Code. Wednesday, November 14, 2012. Another layman's explanation of: Expert Evolution in Online Social Networks. I was recently reading a very interesting paper titled: Evolution of Experts in Question Answering Communities. By Aditya Pal, Shuo Chang and Joseph Konstan. And thought I would share the paper and intend to explain it in Layman's terms. What language style does he use? The questions and answers of the community were divided into bi-weekly...
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