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· 1390 days ago ·

Robert Wall

On the 11th July 2003 I graduated from Trinity College Dublin with my PhD in machine learning. I was working in the Machine Learning Group in the Computer Science Department The title of my thesis was “Explaining the Output of Ensembles of Neural Networks on a Case by Case Basis”. Prior to completing my PhD, I graduated in 1999 with a first class honours degree in Computer Engineering, also in Trinity College Dublin

In early November 2004 I started work with a hedge fund in Dublin, Ireland. Before that I spent two great years working with a sadly now defunct startup company (also in Dublin, Ireland) in an area closely related to my PhD thesis. I’m looking forward to the future and in particular learning more about the financial markets.

April 2006: I’ve moved again. This time I’ve moved more than my job. My wife and I have moved city to London and I’ve started work with another hedge fund in London.

· 1390 days ago ·

backprop.net

The goals for backprop.net have shifted over the last couple of years. Initially it was envisaged as a primary source for material relating to neural networks. In reality, it became known for Bonsai Bugs , a tool that nightly cross references bugs mentioned in checkins to Mozilla CVS with details of those bugs in Bugzilla Other roles performed by the domain included hosting the weblog RAW and a gallery, now named bytesizelife All of these pages have been moved to dedicated domains however and backprop.net was left somewhat bereft of content.

This is changing. backprop.net is now powered entirely by “Dean Allens” increasingly powerfuly and popular weblog software Textpattern I would wholeheartedly recommend this software to anyone wanting to start their own weblog or as a small content management system.

Textpattern will be used to insert articles and links related to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and facilitate discussion.

Posts to backprop.net will be made as frequently as possible.

I welcome all additional links and suggestions for content to this site. I can be reached either by leaving a comment on an article or if your comment is not related to an article then preferably via my contact page