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Ian Flint Explains Yahoo! Communities Architectures
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Ian Flint Explains Yahoo! Communities...

Summary In this presentation, Ian Flint, Director of Operations for Bix, Yahoo!’s online contest service, tries to explain the infrastructure and architecture employed by Yahoo! to keep going... read more »

Level: advanced Dec 12, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Reinforcement Learning Theory
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Reinforcement Learning Theory

The tutorial is on several new pieces of Reinforcement learning theory developed in the last 7 years. This includes: Sample based analysis of RL including E3 and sparse sampling. Generalization bas... read more »

Level: advanced Oct 13, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Googlewhacks for Fun and Profit
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Googlewhacks for Fun and Profit

We study the number of Internet search results returned from multi-word queries based on the number of results returned when each word is searched for individually. We derive a model to describe se... read more »

Level: advanced Oct 06, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Machine Learning Reductions
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Machine Learning Reductions

There are several different classification problems commonly encountered in real world applications such as 'importance weighted classification', 'cost sensitive classification', 'reinforcement lea... read more »

Level: advanced Sep 16, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Interview with Pavel Berkhin
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Interview with Pavel Berkhin

What has Pavel Berkhin to say about his beginings as a researcher, his first and last algorithm, the industry and in general the KDD Conference, since he is this years chairman of the event. Interv... read more »

Level: advanced Sep 15, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Short interviews MLSS05 Chicago by John Langford
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Short interviews MLSS05 Chicago by Jo...

Interviewer: John Langford, Yahoo Research, Yahoo! read more »

Level: advanced Sep 14, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Interview with Usama Fayyad
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Interview with Usama Fayyad

Dr. Usama Fayyad is Yahoo!'s Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President, Research & Strategic Data Solutions. Dr. Usama Fayyad is responsible for Yahoo!'s overall data strategy, architecti... read more »

Level: advanced Sep 14, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Agnostic Active Learning
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Agnostic Active Learning

The great promise of active learning is that via interaction the number of samples required can be reduced to logarithmic in the number required for standard batch supervised learning methods. To a... read more »

Level: advanced Sep 12, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Google I/O 2008 - Even Faster Websites
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Google I/O 2008 - Even Faster Websites

Steve's book High Performance Web Sites describes the 14 best practices he developed while working as the Chief Performance Yahoo!. YSlow, the Firebug extension he created, codified those best prac... read more »

Level: any Sep 06, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Beyond String Search: Fast and Accurate Retrieval of Entities and Dependencies
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Beyond String Search: Fast and Accura...

Lecture slides: Beyond string search: fast and accurate retrieval of entities and dependencies. Plan Document Understanding Cartoon Beyond strings, beyond bag of words Structure & Domain Knowle... read more »

Level: advanced Sep 02, 2008 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk