Machine Learning and Statistics – How they shape our world

Tammo Rukat

February 8, 2017

What is Machine Learning?

What do you think?

  • What sorts of problems does Machine Learning address?
  • In what areas do we use Machine Learning?
  • What is Machine Learning? Definition?

Introductory video

Supervised and unsupervised learning

Example 1: Cats and Dogs and Neural Networks

Cats and Dogs

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dog.jpg

  • How are images represented?

Neural Nets

Multi-Layer Perceptron

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Biological inspiration

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More complex tasks

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Example 2: Self driving cars

Tesla video

Tesla video slow

Example 3: Discovering meaningful patterns in the Human Genome

Biology Recap

100k Genomes