Last week, I wrote an article explaining the basics on traditional chess engines. Today, I will go over the new generation of chess engines, using neural networks instead of brute force evaluation. History For decades, neural networks were thought to Read more…
Over the next few posts, I’ll be writing a series on how chess engines work. This isn’t intended to be an authoritative, in-depth guide on engines, but just a quick summary on the different types of chess engines, and how Read more…
With the first semester of my PhD finally complete, I now have a few weeks of winter break before my classes start again at the end of January. To fill up my time, I’ve decided to try and pick up Read more…
For my final project in Data Mining, we were given a dataset, the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Database, and asked to apply five different types of models to the data: KNN, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Polynomial SVM, Gaussian SVM, and a Read more…
Introduction In order to create a surgery schedule for a hospital’s operating rooms, the hospital must predict how long each surgery will take. However, surgery durations are not deterministic, and hospitals must rely on the frequently inaccurate predictions of surgeons, Read more…
My second research is coming to a close next week, and I’ve been running a lot of ML experiments so I can have interesting results for my final report. However, one of the things slowing down my iterative process was Read more…
Searching for Python Courses Online In the past, I’ve been asked by multiple people for recommendations on how to get started programming. However, when I looked online for courses, I honestly didn’t find anything online that met my criteria of Read more…
In my review of the paper Probabilistic forecasting of surgical case duration using machine learning: model development and validation last week, I briefly mentioned the term CRPS. Today, I’ll go into a little more detail on what CRPS actually is Read more…
My second rotation has started on Monday, and I’ve decided to work with Dr. Chenyang Lu in the area of Machine Learning for Health. During the rotation, I’m going to be working especially close with York Jiao, MD, the Director Read more…
Introduction Today is the final day of my first rotation with CJ and as part of the rotation requirements, I need to write a final report. In line with some of my other assignments, I’ve decided to complete this in Read more…