Archive for March, 2016
Fitbit Alta: Fitness-tracking goes super-stylish
Sunday, March 13th, 2016Raising of Chicago – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saturday, March 12th, 2016George Perkins Marsh – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saturday, March 12th, 2016Heart of the Andes | 09.95 | Work of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday, March 12th, 2016Edward Tufte forum: London Underground maps (+ worldwide subway maps)
Saturday, March 12th, 2016Methane Has Never Looked So Beautiful – The New York Times
Saturday, March 12th, 2016Heights of presidents and presidential candidates of the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Friday, March 11th, 2016EM algorithm
Friday, March 11th, 2016What’s the EM #algorithm?
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v26/n8/full/nbt1406.html Description of its essence in simple contexts (ie coin toss) & as soft version of kmeans
What is the expectation maximization algorithm? : Article : Nature Biotechnology
Primer
Nature Biotechnology 26, 897 – 899 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nbt1406
Chuong B Do & Serafim Batzoglou
Abstract
The expectation maximization algorithm arises in many computational biology applications that involve probabilistic models. What is it good for, and how does it work?
without too much math