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Gaussian Discriminative Analysis

If I sample many many apples from a basket of independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) randomly sized appels, the distribution of the size of my apples will converge towards the Gaussian distribution. This is what Laplace came up with in 1812, in his “Analytic Theory of Probability”. Although Carl Friedrich Gauss 3 years before that already introduced the function and worked out the least squares approximation to estimate the ’true’ (mean) value from a bunch of i.

Machine Learning

Hello world, this is the first in a series of posts about machine learning. I’m mostly making these posts for fun and to go through the basics again, wipe away the dust. I aspire to always think from first principles, so knowing the first principles might come in handy some time. So lets talk about machine learning … Machin learning basically consists of the detection of pattern in data. Data usually refers to a collection of features and classes.