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How to identify a new pattern in a URL with a machine learning algorithm (Text mining)

I am trying to identify new patterns after analyzing a number of URLs. So let's say, I am investigating the hypothetical website Yoohle.com and their URLs have the following structure. domain = ...
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How helpful is a quant job in Goldman Sachs for later PhD in Machine Learning?

I am a masters in Computer Science and am interested in pursuing a career in Machine Learning, possibly academic, in the long run. I have been offered a position related to Financial Modelling at ...
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How can I estimate a score for my users, on if they will match ad campaign criteria?

I have ad campaigns that I want to display to users. Each one has criteria a user must meet in order for them to be valid for the campaign. For example, "User must be in the USA", or "User must like ...
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Non-exclusive categorical model

I have a project to model users with characteristic tags (e.g. runner, cyclist, swimmer, vegan, pianist) in order to correlate user behaviour to these labels. Obviously a user can have multiple ...
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Relation between different ML models

Is there a paper or book that talks about the mathematical relation between different machine learning models - how they are different and how they can (sometimes) be equivalent? For instance ...
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Genetic algorithms, genetic programming or machine learning algorithms for solving this problem

I have a problem that consists of finding the optimal solution based on the following criteria: Logic for identifying that event A has occurred (i.e. "find" logic that most accurately categorises an ...
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Multiclass SVM + Ineffective X Validation, Time Series Prediction

I've recently run into an interesting and rather odd problem with cross validating a multiclass SVM that I can't figure out. Basically, I have a timeseries to predict and have created a dataset of ...
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Error metric for a regression model with two dependent variables

I'm working on an algorithm that estimates two parameters of its input data. I have a representative set of samples with the true parameters, to act as a ground truth. As this algorithm uses a ...
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Which statistical classification algorithm can predict true/false for a sequence of inputs?

Given a sequence of inputs, I need to determine whether this sequence has a certain desired property. The property can only be true or false, that is, there are only two possible classes that a ...
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Algorithms for predicting a couple points in the future

I'm familiar with supervised learning algorithms like regression and neural networks which look at a bunch of input points and learn a function which outputs a value (the value varying depending on ...
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How to get started in data-relation algorithms and mathematics?

I am very interested in the concepts and discussions taking place here. However, I'm not entirely sure what this field of study is called or what the many branches of study are being discussed here ...