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I was preparing my slides for my recent MLFL talk, and I came across this great page on How to give a great presentation by Simon Peyton Jones at MSR. First off, it was a huge help in getting ready for the presentation, I was still very nervous but the tips in the slides were a big help.

Neural networks are all the rage these days, with a huge number of examples of their capabilities around the web. One particular type is the Long Short-Term Memory Recurring Neural Network (LSTM RNN). I’ll leave the explanation of how they work to more qualified people, but I wanted to show off a particularly interesting application of the technology.

Every once in a while I’m going to write a post about something I learned in my Machine Learning course here at UMass. I’d like to do one post per lecture, but I’m late out of the gate, so it might be less frequent. These posts aren’t intended to be thorough explanations of particular topics, but instead will be relatively high-level overviews, with a simple example to illustrate the concept. That’s the plan anyway. Comments or corrections are welcome and encouraged.