Hello everyone! I am a third-year #PhD student on #StochasticProcesses and #MachineLearning at The University of #Edinburgh. I joined #mastodon in hopes of finding an active data science / machine learning community.
For more information, visit my (somewhat outdated) site:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s1478350/
@micmic Hi and welcome! I've done some work in evolutionary computing, particularly Genetics-Based Machine Learning. Happy to contribute what I can...
@aparrish and @janellecshane do fun generative art/text/craftiness with artificial neural networks.
@thelibrarian Good to hear, my MSc thesis utilised genetic algorithms! (to optimise simulator parameters for a complex adaptive system.)
Since then I have shifted camps to Bayesian methods and approximate inference for generative models.
@micmic I think that is one of their better uses. I was using them as a novel way of classifying land cover from remotely sensed imagery on a per-pixel basis (which is a poor use for them, better to use them to tune another type of classifier, IMO).
@micmic Hi welcome!