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SUMMARY:Machine Learning Book Reading Club - Speaker to be confirmed
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CONTACT:Philipp Hennig
DESCRIPTION:The Machine Learning book reading club is a new addition to th
 e ML journal club series. It is aimed primarily at PhD students with an in
 terest in the related fields of Machine Learning\, Probability Theory\, Ne
 uroscience and Information Theory. \n\nGaining a broad overview over one's
  own and neighbouring fields is part of a PhD. Much of such knowledge can 
 be gained from graduate text books\, but it is often hard to sustain the m
 otivation necessary to read through the whole of these often massive tomes
 . The ML book reading club can help to stay on track. Its goal is to read\
 , at a comfortable\, sustained pace\, through a set of the standard text b
 ooks. We meet once a week to discuss the contents of last week's chapter(s
 ).\n\nCurrently\, the long-term plan is to read through the following book
 s\n\n# Christopher M. Bishop: Pattern Recognition & Machine Learning\n# E.
 T. Jaynes: Probability Theory - The Logic of Science\n# Peter Dayan & L.F.
  Abbot: Theoretical Neuroscience\n# David J.C. MacKay: Information Theory\
 , Inference and Learning Algorithms\n\n* This is a long term project. We a
 im to have finished Chris Bishop's book by the start of Michaelmas term 20
 08/09\, and it will take about a year to read through the first three book
 s on the list. Some people may want to join later\, when we start on a boo
 k that's more interesting to them. We will try to keep starting dates for 
 new books to convenient points in time (start of term\, etc.).\n\n* The po
 int is not to perfectly understand each and every sentence in a book\, but
  also not to skip through half of it. A reasonable level to aim for could 
 be being able to solve the intermediate example problems given.\n\n*We wil
 l start off with the discussion of the "Introduction" chapter in Chris Bis
 hop's book (pp. 1 - 67).* We will also use the first meeting to discuss go
 od times for consecutive meetings and  the general modus operandi. Over th
 e summer\, meetings will have to be in the early evening to accommodate th
 ose working outside of the University.
LOCATION:TCM Seminar Room\, Cavendish Laboratory\, Department of Physics
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