Machine Learning in the Cloud with Seth Juarez
Carl and Richard talk to Seth Juarez about the latest developments in the machine learning space for the Microsoft space. The conversation starts out focused on Seth's open source library for doing machine learning in .NET. Seth talks about the challenges of getting your head around machine learning, building models and testing data. Then the discussion turns to the Azure Machine Learning tools, at the moment in preview. This can greatly simplify your experiments with machine learning, providing a huge range of tools for novices and experts a like. It's an exciting time for machine learning, you should check it out!
Guests:
Seth Juarez
Seth Juarez holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science where his field of research was Artificial Intelligence, specifically in the realm of Machine Learning. Seth is an Evangelist for Microsoft and devotes the majority of his time making videos for Channel 9. When he is not working in that area, Seth devotes his time to an open source Machine Learning Library, specifically for .NET, intended to simplify the use of popular machine learning models, as well as complex statistics and linear algebra.
Links:
- Stay Away from Buffalo Hard Drives http://carlfranklin.net/blog/2014/7/29/stay-away-from-buffalo-hard-drives.html
- StorSimple Storage with Built-in Azure http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/storsimple/
- Machine Learning for .NET on GitHub https://github.com/sethjuarez/numl
- Azure Machine Learning as a Service http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/