Spoiler: yes. But read the rest of this post to find out why we’re reasonably convinced. The expert opinion on back pain is that it falls into three categories: Nociceptive: Pain that arises from actual or threatened damage to non-neural tissue, occurring with a normally functioning somatosensory nervous system. Peripheral...
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Clustering, the Bayesian way
I recently finished a report on Bayesian nonparametrics and I figured a post to motivate the excitement around the area would be warranted. Since most of what goes on under the hood when modelling your problem this way is some pretty involved pure mathematics, let’s start with a concrete-ish problem....
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Say you’re a robotics researcher and you want to find the best path for a robot to take in order to perform some tasks. Unless your course is very simple, you’ll probably have to fiddle with some parameters in order to achieve this with confidence, and so you’ve decided to...
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I had the chance to approach a series of statistical learning methods during the first MRes topic sprint. One of them was Bayesian optimisation, a technique for efficient global optimization of functions that can be evaluated but have an unknown structure. It turns out that in fields such as robotics,...
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