Clinton Montague

Developer, learner of things, functional programming enthusiast, hacker, and all round inquisitor.

Making sense of Bayes rule

February 17, 2019

Bayes rule has always seemed like witchcraft to me. But today I went through the derivation, and then thought through why it is useful. Suddenly it started making a bit more sense. Thinking about it in a machine learning setting, let’s say that we have a dataset containing cats and dogs, and their respective names. […]

Starting machine learning

February 16, 2019

For a few years now, I’ve been sitting here wishing that I knew machine learning. Yearning for a job where I was looking at data and writing algorithms to find patterns and make predictions. But the problem is exactly that. I’ve been sitting and wishing, not learning and doing. True, I did a course on Coursera a […]