But according to rumors, MJ’s “reach” for his wallet at the dinner table left a lot to be desired. Everyone called it a flu game, but we sat there. Before Jordan left the arena that day, then-Bulls coach Phil Jackson -- who perhaps would have prevented the tiff if he wasn’t in his office doing a media conference call, Kerr suggests -- told the superstar he had to speak with Kerr that night. What are the most important high level trends in machine learning research and industry applications these days? That particular version of the list seems to be one from a few years ago; I now tend to add some books that dig still further into foundational topics. Throughout the eighties and nineties, it was striking how many times people working within the "ML community" realized that their ideas had had a lengthy pre-history in statistics. Out of everybody in the room, [MJ] was the only one who ate. If BJ missed two shots in a row on passes from MJ, Michael would walk by the bench and say, “get his ass out.”. Basketball great Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin have partnered to form a new single-car NASCAR Cup Series team … The story of Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan sharing the court the last time on March 28, 2003, when the kid scored 55 points and the G.O.A.T. Do you mind explaining the history behind how you learned about variational inference as a graduate student? By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Holy crap, is "Like a Virgin" about Madonna hooking up with Pippen? And of course it has engendered new theoretical questions. This last point is worth elaborating---there's no reason that one can't allow the nodes in graphical models to represent random sets, or random combinatorial general structures, or general stochastic processes; factorizations can be just as useful in such settings as they are in the classical settings of random vectors. Title. I first heard it on The Last Podcast on the Left where the hosts are incredibly fond of saying this. See the numbered list at the end of my blurb on deep learning above. I hope and expect to see more people developing architectures that use other kinds of modules and pipelines, not restricting themselves to layers of "neurons". Kevin Garnett had a classic story about making the mistake of talking trash to Michael Jordan. I'd also include B. Efron's "Large-Scale Inference: Empirical Bayes Methods for Estimation, Testing, and Prediction", as a thought-provoking book. STACKHOUSE: Whatever man, just play ball man JORDAN: I'm not saying what side do you want me to go by you, thats gonna happen regardless, I'm going to put you on my poster today so I am asking you what side you like of yourself and I'll make sure that when I dunk on you I know what side you want showing. Similarly, layered neural networks can and should be viewed as nonparametric function estimators, objects to be analyzed statistically. MJ really did respect guys who would stand up to him. “We go back to playing, and he starts his whole thing ‘you can’t guard me.’ Finally I just said, ‘You may be the best high school player, but I’m the best player in the world.’ So from this point on, it’s a lesson. Do you still think this is the best set of books, and would you add any new ones? He laughed. We had been there for a while. Buzz Peterson invites Michael Jordan over to play a casual game of cards with Peterson’s mother. He is so fearful of what Jordan will say to/about him that he wears the two left shoes for the entire practice. "We were playing Detroit and I came out on fire in the first half. Barkley said that MJ is an awful tipper apparently. Indeed, it's unsupervised learning that has always been viewed as the Holy Grail; it's presumably what the brain excels at and what's really going to be needed to build real "brain-inspired computers". ", He's obsessed with the iPad game Bejeweled. Ten years ago, we'd have been arguing all f---ing day. Note that latent Dirichlet allocation is a parametric Bayesian model in which the number of topics K is assumed known. But one shouldn't definitely not equate statistics or optimization with theory and machine learning with applications. Articles Cited by Co-authors. Anything beyond CRFs? And then I'm going to look at you. When Leo Breiman developed random forests, was he being a statistician or a machine learner? Basically, I think that CRMs are to nonparametrics what exponential families are to parametrics (and I might note that I'm currently working on a paper with Tamara Broderick and Ashia Wilson that tries to bring that idea to life). Kennedy says she freaked out because she was a virgin —and imagined MJ's giant penis would "eviscerate me from the inside out" ... so she asked if they could play for Knicks tickets instead. The "statistics community" has also been very applied, it's just that for historical reasons their collaborations have tended to focus on science, medicine and policy rather than engineering. He received his Masters in Mathematics from Arizona State University, and earned his PhD in Cognitive Science in 1985 from the University of California, San Diego. He and Kerr talked trash on a couple of possessions, and then it escalated. That's progress.". If you didn't show any fight, MJ would basically do everything he could to destroy your will. He once lost a game of ping pong to a teammate, then proceeded to buy a table and spend the next six months practicing almost non stop. When the Bulls let Charles Oakley go and brought in Bill Cartwright, Jordan resented the loss of his friend and took it out on Cartwright, calling him “Medical Bill” and intentionally throwing impossible-to-handle passes at him in practice to draw attention to what he perceived to be his bad hands. I'd do so in the context of a full merger of "data" and "knowledge", where the representations used by the humans can be connected to data and the representations used by the learning systems are directly tied to linguistic structure. Prof. Jordan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Long story short, MJ said that he aint tipping shit and that her boss should pay his employees better so they don't ask for tips. This seems like as good a place as any (apologies, though, for not responding directly to your question). It was intense. Unanswered. "He was poisoned for the 'flu game.' Sort. And then Dave Rumelhart started exploring backpropagation---clearly leaving behind the neurally-plausible constraint---and suddenly the systems became much more powerful. I hope, for his sake, that someday Jordan will be able to, as well. I hate that fat ****.” Jordan dropped 55 in game 4 and Barkley never touched him once. He averaged 26.9 points in the final 17 regular-season games after coming out of retirement, but shot only 41 percent from the field. It was a private salon game. So everyone kind of knew where we were staying. -Stackhouse tells the story about his first encounter with Mike as a rookie. I'm going to pump fake and then I'm going to shoot a jumper. Anything that the brain couldn't do was to be avoided; we needed to be pure in order to find our way to new styles of thinking. Note that many of the most widely-used graphical models are chains---the HMM is an example, as is the CRF. For 25 years, they sat in a closet in the Lavi family home in the Tel Aviv area alongside blankets, old books and a suitcase – two valuable collector’s items: an original Air Jordan 1 sneaker and a baseball mitt, both belonging to basketball legend Michael Jordan. Then he pounded. His NBA years : from 1985 to 2003 Michael Jordan NBA Stats Summary : I think that too few people have tried out Bayesian nonparametrics on real-world, large-scale problems (good counter-examples include Emily Fox at UW and David Dunson at Duke). He was true to his word; never said anything nice again.". Feel free to share any I did not include. Jordan backed off of him and told him: “shoot it you f—ing midget.” Mugsy shot it, didn’t come close. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They played 48 holes of golf. I had a terrible second half. Not only did Jordan brush him off, but he also cursed him out and disrespected him by saying "“You know what, I tell you what, you pay $15,000 right now for a jersey from me and I’ll take a picture with you.'" A "statistical method" doesn't have to have any probabilities in it per se. (4) How do I visualize data, and in general how do I reduce my data and present my inferences so that humans can understand what's going on? But I personally think that the way to go is to put those formal characterizations into optimization functionals or Bayesian priors, and then develop procedures that explicitly try to optimize (or integrate) with respect to them. Anyway, that summer Drexler brings two left shoes to practice on accident. In that spirit of implementing, which topic modeling application areas are you most excited about at the moment and looking forward, what impact do you think these recent developments in fast, scalable inference for conjugate and conditionally conjugate Bayes nets will have on the applications we develop 5-10 years from now? What current techniques do you think students should be learning now to prepare for future advancements in approximate inference? They two were playing golf together when MJ forced the former president to play from the furthest away tees. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the MachineLearning community, Press J to jump to the feed. On Monday, they were finally sold at a public auction in the U.S., with the help of the Netflix documentary 'The Last Dance.' What his teammates didn't know is that he had pre-arranged for his luggage to come out first with the employees at the airport, who of course were happy to do something for Michael Jordan. This time, this stage where I am, you win. Barkley noticed what he did, said: "Man you an asshole", and wrote the girl a check. On what grounds is Michael Jordan being considered a psychopath? Room service stopped at like nine o'clock. Michael Jordan gave a moving speech about his close friend Kobe Bryant during the memorial at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Monday.. Jordan played an … Note that latent Dirichlet allocation is a tree. It was a private salon game. "It was a moment like oh (expletive), really? **Jordan used to bet with his teammates that his bags would get taken off of the plane first, then pay airport workers to do it. Many Washington players got the business end of a Jordan harangue, but he designated second-year forward Kwame Brown as the whipping boy…A source told SI that Jordan ritually reduced Brown to tears in front of the team. Having just written (see above) about the need for statistics/ML to ally itself more with CS systems and database researchers rather than focusing mostly on AI, let me take the opportunity of your question to exhibit my personal incoherence and give an answer that focuses on AI. And while I'm glad it happened, I'm also ready to move on. Value over Replacement Player: Ah, good old VORP. For example, I've worked recently with Alex Bouchard-Cote on evolutionary trees, where the entities propagating along the edges of the tree are strings of varying length (due to deletions and insertions), and one wants to infer the tree and the strings. (3) How do I merge statistical thinking with database thinking (e.g., joins) so that I can clean data effectively and merge heterogeneous data sources? I don't know what to call the overall field that I have in mind here (it's fine to use "data science" as a placeholder), but the main point is that most people who I know who were trained in statistics or in machine learning implicitly understood themselves as working in this overall field; they don't say "I'm not interested in principles having to do with randomization in data collection, or with how to merge data, or with uncertainty in my predictions, or with evaluating models, or with visualization". I personally don't make the distinction between statistics and machine learning that your question seems predicated on. And that killed Michael. First time. Although current deep learning research tends to claim to encompass NLP, I'm (1) much less convinced about the strength of the results, compared to the results in, say, vision; (2) much less convinced in the case of NLP than, say, vision, the way to go is to couple huge amounts of data with black-box learning architectures. That's what makes him, I think, the greatest player ever. Cited by. But this mix doesn't feel singularly "neural" (particularly the need for large amounts of labeled data). I have no idea what this means, or could possibly mean. Johnny said, “you should have seen the girls pippen had waiting for him everywhere we went. Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley. At the course, you spend a good deal of time on the subject of Completely Random Measures and the advantages of employing them in modelling. That logic didn't work for me then, nor does it work for me now. I've personally been doing exactly that at Berkeley, in the context of the "RAD Lab" from 2006 to 2011 and in the current context of the "AMP Lab". I heard one about this story when Jerry stackhouse was a rookie. He's probably good. And Michael bought Charles a $20,000 diamond earring. I'd use the billion dollars to build a NASA-size program focusing on natural language processing (NLP), in all of its glory (semantics, pragmatics, etc). We came in after the game — we’d won. Craig Hodges, who played for the Chicago Bulls from 1988 to … Cited by . I don't think that the "ML community" has developed many new inferential principles---or many new optimization principles---but I do think that the community has been exceedingly creative at taking existing ideas across many fields, and mixing and matching them to solve problems in emerging problem domains, and I think that the community has excelled at making creative use of new computing architectures. Before long, Kennedy says, Jordan decided it was "time to play for something" ... and said, "If I win, you come back to my hotel room with me tonight.". One of Michael Jordan's former teammates took issue with a revelation the legend made on "The Last Dance" documentary. Different collections of people (your "communities") often tend to have different application domains in mind and that makes some of the details of their current work look superficially different, but there's no actual underlying intellectual distinction, and many of the seeming distinctions are historical accidents. “I knew that if we were in an actual fight he could actually probably kill me if he wanted to,” Kerr says. I’ve got some rings too,”’ Parish recalled. The word "deep" just means that to me---layering (and I hope that the language eventually evolves toward such drier words...). I might add that I was a PhD student in the early days of neural networks, before backpropagation had been (re)-invented, where the focus was on the Hebb rule and other "neurally plausible" algorithms. (Consider computing the median). Michael had ordered a drink from the cocktail waitress, and he gave her a five-dollar chip. We're looking at him, finding the team physician at that time. They've mainly been used in the context of deriving normalized random measures (by, e.g., James, Lijoi and Pruenster); i.e., random probability measures. I've seen yet more work in this vein in the deep learning work and I think that that's great. They didn't want to let him down. I think I had 17-18 points, half-a-dozen rebounds, a couple of blocks — playing like an All-Star. Lastly, I'm certainly a fan of coresets, matrix sketching, and random projections. Maybe that could become reality now that LaVar's son LaMelo is joining Jordan's Hornets. The 6-foot-3, 175-pound Kerr wound up with a black eye. Horace Grant believes the editing process has made a mockery of history. I'm going to dribble it between my legs twice. He had seen and done everything at that point. (5) How can I do diagnostics so that I don't roll out a system that's flawed or so that I can figure out that an existing system is now broken? When the two players are on opposite teams in scrimmages, the source says, "[ Jordan] is in Rodney's face, screaming, 'You're a loser! Monday, May 11 - 12:01 a.m. PT - "The Last Dance" Episodes 7 and 8. He started by asking … I find that industry people are often looking to solve a range of other problems, often not involving "pattern recognition" problems of the kind I associate with neural networks. What is the next frontier for applied nonparametrics? And that's exactly what he did. Are the SVM and boosting machine learning while logistic regression is statistics, even though they're solving essentially the same optimization problems up to slightly different shapes in a loss function? I take the pizza and I tell them: "I've got a bad feeling about this. In other engineering areas, the idea of using pipelines, flow diagrams and layered architectures to build complex systems is quite well entrenched, and our field should be working (inter alia) on principles for building such systems. He has been named a Neyman Lecturer and a Medallion Lecturer by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Immediately I told him it's food poisoning. There's a whole food chain of ideas from physics through civil engineering that allow one to design bridges, build them, give guarantees that they won't fall down under certain conditions, tune them to specific settings, etc, etc. We have hammers, screwdrivers, wrenches, etc, and big projects involve using each of them in appropriate (although often creative) ways. LaVar Ball once said he could beat Michael Jordan one-on-one. 'He's the most viciously competitive player I've ever seen. Michael Jordan’s business practices have been criticized in the past. Michael's number 2 here behind LeBron James, whom I saw right in the top 5 in those other categories too. I posted him up, I did everything.”. I first thought this was a recurring joke. They talked some more at practice the next day and moved on. I believe Bill Cartwright had the same scenario as well. Michael I. Jordan. It was palpable in every drill, every time down the floor. Indeed, with all due respect to bridge builders (and rocket builders, etc), but I think that we have a domain here that is more complex than any ever confronted in human society. Scottie was very blessed down below. It seems that most applications of Bayesian nonparametrics (GPs aside) currently fall into clustering/mixture models, topic modelling, and graph modelling. Over the past 3 years we've seen some notable advancements in efficient approximate posterior inference for topic models and Bayesian nonparametrics e.g. The guy was starstruck and ended up looking at Jordan's dick for some reason, and said it was large enough that he looked at it for too long. There's still lots to explore there. I'm also overall happy with the rebranding associated with the usage of the term "deep learning" instead of "neural networks". My colleague Yee Whye Teh and I are nearly done with writing just such an introduction; we hope to be able to distribute it this fall. 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