I have been talking so much(*) about childcare at conferences that someone may think this has become a parenting blog. This post aims at summarising why organisers should offer support to parents working in academia and how exactly they can do that. Why you should do it I can give you plenty of reasons why. […]
Month: March 2016
A small guide to Random Forest - part 2
This is the second part of a simple and brief guide to the Random Forest algorithm and its implementation in R. If you missed Part I, you can find it here. randomForest in R R has a package called randomForest which contains a randomForest function. If you want to explore in depth this implementation, I […]
A small guide to Random Forest - part 1
I've recently started playing with Kaggle and got curious about one of the most famous classification/regression framework, Random Forest. In a problem of classification or regression, several random decision trees (a "forest") are built and at the end the outputs are combined ("bagging"). The intuition is that randomness and a meaningful quantity of trees will avoid […]
Women in Mathematics in Finland: Amal Attouchi
As promised, the series of lectures continues, after the inaugural event hosted by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of University of Helsinki. This time I'll travel to University of Jyväskylä and the guest speaker will be Amal Attouchi, local postdoctoral researcher. Amal graduated in 2014 at Université Paris XIII, with a thesis on PDEs titled […]
The man who knew infinity: a movie about Ramanujan
Thank you Youtube suggestions! Today I came across this trailer of an upcoming movie, "The man who knew infinity". The movie depicts the story of one of the finest minds of last century and one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, Srinivasa Ramanujan. He was what you'd call a true genius, an independent thinker […]