Re: [Tutor] Programming Collective Intelligence Study Group

2011-11-29 Thread Mark Lybrand
Before I launch in on my master scheme. I have come across another couple of interesting Machine Learning/Python books: Mining the Social Web by Matthew Russell. O'Reilly ISBN-13: 978-1449388348 Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective by Stephen Marsland. ISBN-13: 978-1420067187 Okay, thi

Re: [Tutor] Programming Collective Intelligence Study Group

2011-11-29 Thread bob gailer
On 11/29/2011 3:42 AM, Mark Lybrand wrote: Over on the Machine Learning Class, I mentioned the idea of setting up some online resources to go through the Programming Collective Intelligence book as a group. This would include a group or discussion board of some type, maybe a Google+ or Facebook

Re: [Tutor] Programming Collective Intelligence Study Group

2011-11-29 Thread Rodney Lewis
Sounds like an awesome idea to me. I'm on board. Keep the list informed about that please. And thanks for the links to the machine learning and nlp resources! http://www.squidoo.com/introductiontopython On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Mark Lybrand wrote: > Over on the Machine Learning Class

Re: [Tutor] Programming Collective Intelligence Study Group (Mark Lybrand)

2011-11-29 Thread tommy
; os.path.abspath is in order. I also think that ismount() might not be >> >> legal on Windows, if you care about that. >> >> >> >> Also, we have to worry about what happens when one of the directories >> >> cannot be made for reasons unrelated to the syntax

Re: [Tutor] Programming Collective Intelligence Study Group

2011-11-29 Thread Mark Lybrand
> > What are the Machine Learning Class and the Programming Collective > Intelligence book? Should I have heard of them before? > > Sorry for being unclear. Machine Learning Class is one of the free classes offered online by Stanford. http://www.ml-class.org This one started in October. Another

Re: [Tutor] Programming Collective Intelligence Study Group (Mark Lybrand)

2011-11-29 Thread Mark Lybrand
syntax of the string. For > >> example, the user might not have write permissions for one or more of > the > >> directories. In fact, the user might not have read permissions either. > >> > >> > > I am actually passing in the path already os.path.abspath-ed. So, I > s

Re: [Tutor] Programming Collective Intelligence Study Group

2011-11-29 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Mark Lybrand wrote: Over on the Machine Learning Class, I mentioned the idea of setting up some online resources to go through the Programming Collective Intelligence book What are the Machine Learning Class and the Programming Collective Intelligence book? Should I have heard of them before?

Re: [Tutor] Programming Collective Intelligence Study Group (Mark Lybrand)

2011-11-29 Thread tommy
g > with that as my base case). Since this will end up being a throw-away, I > will probably not worry too much about permissions and failures, but I can > appreciate the need for such checks, should I decide to keep this for more > widespread use. > > Thanks again. I will send

[Tutor] Programming Collective Intelligence Study Group

2011-11-29 Thread Mark Lybrand
Over on the Machine Learning Class, I mentioned the idea of setting up some online resources to go through the Programming Collective Intelligence book as a group. This would include a group or discussion board of some type, maybe a Google+ or Facebook page, and a wiki. Then we would set a pace an