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Posted in Kids, pictures with tags Emmanuel Macron, French politics, Lego, Liberation on April 10, 2016 by xi'anmachine learning as buzzword
Posted in Books, Kids with tags Amazon, blogging, Lego, machine learning, Normal deviate, traffic on November 12, 2013 by xi'anIn one of his posts, my friend Larry mentioned that popular posts had to mention the Bayes/frequentist opposition in the title… I think mentioning machine learning is also a good buzzword to increase the traffic! I did spot this phenomenon last week when publishing my review of Kevin Murphy’s Machine Learning: the number of views and visitors jumped by at least a half, exceeding the (admittedly modest) 1000 bar on two consecutive days. Interestingly, the number of copies of Machine Learning (sold via my amazon associate link) did not follow this trend: so far, I only spotted a few copies sold, in similar amounts to the number of copies of Spatio-temporal Statistics I reviewed the week before. Or most books I review, positively or negatively! (However, I did spot a correlated increase in overall amazon associate orderings and brazenly attributed the command of a Lego robotic set to a “machine learner”! And as of yesterday Og‘s readers massively ordered
152 236 copies of the latest edition of Andrew’s Bayesian Data Analysis, Thanks!)