Data meets nice people V

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I proudly present the agenda for the last A&DC event 2014.

19:00 doors open

19:20 Welcome @ BASE_camp

19:25 Trent McConaghy: Genetic Programming and Symbolic Regression (20 mins)

19:45 Trent McConaghy: Massively Shallow Learning with FFX (20 mins + 10 mins discussion)

20:15 Thomas Müller: Electricity - Smartly Metered (20 mins + 5 mins discussion)

20:40 Socializing

We will have a double feature by Trent (see below for CV and abstracts), one topic leading into the other. Afterwards, Thomas will talk about his DSR project.

I'm looking forward to meeting you @ BASE_camp.

Greetings, Alex

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Genetic Programming and Symbolic Regression

This talk gives an introduction to Genetic Programming (GP) , in the context of the broader field of Artificial Intelligence. It then discusses how GP can be used to solve Symbolic Regression problems, and how it outperforms neural networks and other popular regression techniques.

Massively Shallow Learning with FFX

Not all problems are created equal. Some require deep layers of interaction, millions or billions of training points, and massive computer clusters. But many real-world industrial-class problems have have a different structure, with just hundreds or thousands of training points and just a handful of cores to do meaningful learning. This talk describes how to do massively shallow learning on one core, in seconds with a technique called FFX. FFX has been successfully deployed on thousands of problems as a technology "that just works".

Trent McConaghy has been designing and developing algorithms and machine learning technology since the mid 1990s. He's a serial entrepreneur with two successful startups under his belt, and a new one starting to lift off. He's written two books, and has given invited talks and keynotes at MIT, Columbia, Berkeley, JPL, Nvidia, Data Science Day Berlin, PyData Berlin, and more.