The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Not very long ago, I wrote two rather long posts centered around the charismatic nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer:
>> Peace (Part three of this post – The Gita of J. Robert Oppenheimer)
>> American Prometheus
Since I have already written considerable amounts on Oppenheimer, I wouldn’t write more, though  I could write more. I would request readers [...]

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A Huge collection of Datasets

Pete Skomoroch of Datawrangling admits that work and other commitments have made him cut down on blogging significantly. However every now and then, he comes up with posts that literally show the astonishing amounts of sustained efforts put in by him.
Though the posting frequency is very low, It still qualifies as one of my favorite [...]

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Face Recognition in Bees

I have been following Dr Adrian Dyer’s work for about a year. I discovered him and his work while searching on the Monash University website for research on vision, ML and related fields when a friend of mine was thinking of applying for a PhD there. Dr Dyer is a vision scientist and a top [...]

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Face Recognition using Eigenfaces and Distance Classifiers: A Tutorial

Why?
Two Reasons:
1. Eigenfaces is probably one of the simplest face recognition methods and also rather old, then why/how is this post going to help AT ALL? Well, I have to give a presentation on face recognition using Support Vector Machines in a weeks time and I have to initiate the talk with a system [...]

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