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Hi, I'm Vanessa, a Principal Computer Scientist.
Building schedulers, containers, and cloudy things, with a love for learning and new experiences. -- about me

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Region Growing Region Growing is an algorithm for segmentation of regions in an image based on the idea that regions share some property that can be computationally measured.  It’s one of those magical algorithms that is ridiculously simply, and powerful because the... Read more

Bayesian MAP Estimate The **MAP **estimate (maximum a posteriori) estimate is another way to estimate the optimal parameters for a supervised prediction problem.  As a reminder, when we had some training set with features x and labels, y, were using maximum likelihood to... Read more

Feature Selection Science these days is defined by big data.  In economics, medicine, politics, just about any field, we are constantly collecting information about things and trying to build models to understand and predict our world.  In this light, you can imagine... Read more